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Children’s Early Spontaneous Comparisons Predict Later Analogical Reasoning Skills: An Investigation of Parental Influence
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Abstract Laboratory studies have demonstrated beneficial effects of making comparisons on children’s analogical reasoning skills. We extend this finding to an observational dataset comprising 42 children. The prevalence of specific comp...
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Testing the Psychological Reality of a Representation Model
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A r e s e a r c h program is desc r ibed i n which a p a r t i c u l a r r e p r e s e n t a t t o n a l format f o r meaning is t e s t e d as broad ly as p o s s i b l e . I n t h i s format, developed by t h e LNR r e s e a r c h gro...
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Evidence for the psychological reality of semantic components: The verbs of possession
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This chapter is concerned with the way verbs are stored and processed. I use a set of possession verbs as illustrative examples. The first section of the chapter deals with the structural representation of these verbs. The remainder of ...
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Children's Performance on a Spatial Analogies Task.
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GENTNER, DEDRE . Children's Performance on a Spatial Analogies Task . CHILD DEVELOPMENT , 1977, 48, 1034-1039 . Young children performed as well as or better than adults on tasks requiring use of spatial analogies . The tasks involved b...
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On Relational Meaning: The Acquisition of Verb Meaning. Technical Report No. 78.
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words Cru.-rp.xn, Dents:. On Relational Meaning: The Acquisition of Verb Meanin;. CnrLi DevlaoPxtcrT, 1978 . 49, 9SS-99S . The acquisition of verb meaning is very different from the acquisition of simple noun meaning . ("Simple nouns" c...
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If a tree had a knee, where would it be? Children's performance on simple spatial metaphors
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This research is concerned with the development of metaphorical ability, conceived of as the ability to preserve conceptual relationships across changes in actual content. This view of metaphorical ability does not distinguish between a...
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Testing The Psychological Reality of a Representational Model
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A research program is described in which a particular representational format for meaning is tested as broadly as possible. In this format, developed by the LNR research group at The University of California at San Diego, verbs are repr...
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