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ERIC Number: EJ491661
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Children's Use of Context in Interpreting "Big" and "Little."
Ebeling, Karen S.; Gelman, Susan A.
Child Development, v65 n4 p1178-92 Aug 1994
Three experiments examined how flexibly two- to four-year-old children use the words "big" and "little" in normative, perceptual, and functional contexts. Results showed that children switched easily from a normative context but made errors when asked to switch to a normative context. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Classification, Context Effect, Individual Differences, Preschool Children, Visual Discrimination
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Size Estimation