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Hot dogs and zavy cats: preschoolers' and adults' expectations about familiar and novel adjectives. ...
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Abstract:
In recent years, a growing body of research has begun to examine the processes that un- derlie young children's acquisition of adjectival meanings. In the present studies, we examined whether preschoolers' willingness to extend adjectives was influenced by the type of property labeled by familiar adjectives (Experiment 1) and by semantic information conveyed in the sentence used to introduce novel adjectives (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, we examined preschoolers' and adults' expectations about the generalizability of familiar adjectives of three different types: emotional state terms, physiological state terms, and stable trait terms. On each trial, we labeled a target animal with one of the three different types of adjectives and asked whether these terms could apply to a subordinate-level match, a basic-level match, a super- ordinate-level match, or an inanimate object. Results indicated that 4-year-olds and adults extended the trait terms, but not the emotional or physiological terms, to members of the ...
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URL: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/111882
https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/37719
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