On Relational Meaning [electronic resource] : The Acquisition of Verb Meaning. Technical Report No. 78 / Dedre Gentner.

The acquisition of verb meaning is discussed and compared with the acquisition of simple noun meaning. Evidence presented from three experiments with children and adults indicates that (1) verbal meanings are relatively slow to be acquired; (2) the acquisition of verb meaning involves the gradual ad...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Gentner, Dedre
Corporate Authors:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1977.
Subjects:	Child Language. Concept Formation. Language Acquisition. Nouns. Semantics. Verbs.