Linguistic and Conceptual Influences on Adjective Acquisition in 24- and 36-Month-Olds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9787718 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Toben H Mintz (0000-0002-5437-7482, University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-29 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0012-1649.41.1.17 |
| PMID | 15656734 |
| OpenAlex | W2143458992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 29 |
Two hundred forty English-speaking toddlers (24- and 36-month-olds) heard novel adjectives applied to familiar objects (Experiment 1) and novel objects (Experiment 2). Children were successful in mapping adjectives to target properties only when information provided by the noun, in conjunction with participants' knowledge of the objects, provided coherent category information: when basic-level nouns or superordinate-level nouns were used with familiar objects, when novel basic-level nouns were used with novel objects, and--for 36-month-olds--when the nouns were underspecified with respect to category (thing or one) but participants could nonetheless infer a category from pragmatic and conceptual knowledge. These results provide evidence concerning how nouns influence adjective learning, and they support the notion that toddlers consider pragmatic factors when learning new words
Adjective · Categorization · Cognitive psychology · Conjunction (astronomy · Language acquisition · Linguistics · Noun · Superordinate goals · Child and Animal Learning Development · Language Development and Disorders · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Social Psychology
Acquisition of adjectives across languages and populations
Challenges and Strategies for Acquiring Adjectives
Meaning and Context in Children's Understanding of Gradable Adjectives
Introducing Mr. Three
An Object Lesson
A distributional perspective on the gavagai problem in early word learning
Three-year-olds' comprehension of contrastive and descriptive adjectives
Three-year-olds can predict a noun based on an attributive adjective
Conveying information about adjective meanings in spoken discourse
If it’s red, it’s not Vap
The role of explicit contrast in adjective acquisition
Do degree adverbs guide adjective learning crosslinguistically? A comparison of Dutch and Russian
When knowledge causes failure
Gaze as a Window to the Process of Novel Adjective Mapping
Learning Maximum Absolute Meaning Through Reasoning About Speaker Intentions
From Dichotomy to Divergence
Constraints Children Place on Word Meanings
Children's sensitivity to constraints on word meaning
The importance of shape in early lexical learning
The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings
Human simulations of vocabulary learning
Relevance and early word learning
Language and Experience
What is a language made out of
Count nouns, adjectives, and perceptual properties in children's novel word interpretations
The role of comparison in the extension of novel adjectives
Young children extend novel words at the basic level
Children's avoidance of lexical overlap
Children use syntax to learn verb meanings
When it is better to receive than to give
| Unique citing works | 16 |
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| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |