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Peer reviewedWaxman, Sandra R.; Booth, Amy E. – Cognitive Psychology, 2001
Investigated whether infants can construe the same set of objects as an object category or as embodying an object property. Results of 2 experiments involving 48 and 64 14-month-olds respectively suggest that infants have begun to distinguish nouns from adjectives, they expect different grammatical forms to highlight different aspects, and that…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Comprehension, Infants
Download full textBjurlof, Thomas; Jamieson, Dale – 1978
It has long been said that there are an infinite number of English sentences. "This is the cat that caught the rat" is an Enqlish sentence. So is "This is the cat that caught the rat that stole the cheese.""This is the cat with white paws that caught the rat that stole the cheese" is unobjectionable as well. Since a…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deep Structure, English, Grammar
