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| Adjectives | 1 |
| Child Language | 1 |
| Comprehension | 1 |
| Hypothesis Testing | 1 |
| Language Acquisition | 1 |
| Learning Theories | 1 |
| Psycholinguistics | 1 |
| Semantics | 1 |
| Space | 1 |
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| Journal of Child Language | 1 |
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| Bartlett, Elsa Jaffe | 1 |
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Peer reviewedBartlett, Elsa Jaffe – Journal of Child Language, 1976
Two tasks were used to test predictions of the Semantic Feature Hypothesis (SFH) about children's comprehension of the meaning of spatial adjectives. Predictions about acquisition order for dimensional features were supported; predictions about polarity were not. An acquisition hypothesis is offered that is contrary to the SFH. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Comprehension, Hypothesis Testing
