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Peer reviewedHollander, Michelle A.; Gelman, Susan A.; Star, Jon – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Two studies used a comprehension task and an elicited production task to examine whether preschool children and adults appreciated the semantic properties of generic utterances. Findings indicated that in both tasks, 4-year-olds and adults treated generics ("bears live in caves") as distinct from both indefinites ("some") and universal quantifiers…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Language Processing, Nouns
Peer reviewedGelman, Susan A.; Markman, Ellen M. – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Discusses two studies that examine whether children are sensitive to the fact that adjectives and nouns differ in the contrast they imply. Results show that by age four, children are sensitive to this. Implications for children's use of referential language and word learning strategies are discussed. (SED)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
