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Marinellie, Sally A. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2010
This study investigated children's understanding of unfamiliar noun and verb definitions in tasks that were manipulated for syntactic and semantic properties of definitions. The study was also designed to examine the relation between understanding word definitions and the skills of syntactic awareness and making inferences. A total of 117 children…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Semantics, Nouns
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Alcock, K. J.; Ngorosho, D. – Language and Speech, 2004
Grammatical priming of picture naming was investigated in Kiswahili, which has a complex grammatical noun class system (a system like grammatical gender), with up to 15 noun classes that have obligatory agreements on adjectives, verbs, pronouns and other parts of speech. Participants heard a grammatically agreeing (concordant), nonagreeing…
Descriptors: African Languages, Semantics, Nouns, Grammar