The development of relational arcs in the lexical semantic memory structures of young children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20366309 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter F Norlin (Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 385-402 |
| Publication date | 1981-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000900003251 |
| PMID | 7251713 |
| OpenAlex | W2046487427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 21 |
Forty-eight normally developing children, twelve each at ages three, four five, and six years, were asked to define and describe ten concrete nouns expressively with no attendant visual stimuli. Responses were coded according to the semantic relations expressed. Nineteen different semantic relationships were isolated in these definitions, and significant differences were found between the age levels in the various configurations of semantic relational categories represented in the first five relations elicited from each child by each noun. Compatible with recent hypotheses concerning the development of internal semantic memory structures, these differences also proved to be highly predictive of a subject's chronological age. The results suggest that semantic relational analysis may be a productive method of documenting the characteristics of lexical semantic systems of very young children
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Semantic memory · Semantic relation · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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A First Language
Structure and Strategy in Learning to Talk
Retrieval time from semantic memory
A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing.
Learning to make definitions
Language perspectives—Acquisition, retardation, and intervention
The syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift revisited
Cognition and the Development of Language
Language Development and Language Disorders
Retrieval from semantic memory by young children
The most frequently used words of spoken English
Concept, word, and sentence
Early syntactic development
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2013 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |