Structural Limits on Verb Mapping: The Role of Analogy in Children's Interpretations of Sentences.

Fisher, Cynthia

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ERIC Number: EJ533507

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Publication Date: 1996

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Structural Limits on Verb Mapping: The Role of Analogy in Children's Interpretations of Sentences.

Fisher, Cynthia

Cognitive Psychology, v31 n1 p41-81 Aug 1996

Results of 3 sentence-interpretation experiments involving 180 preschoolers suggest that very little explicit syntactic knowledge is needed to give children some structural clues to verb meaning. Sentence structure appears to have a meaning of its own that can be applied by analogy to the child's conceptual representation. (SLD)

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Interpretive Skills, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Verbs

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Language: English

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