Big Differences the standard for ‘big’ as used by adults and children

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Authors
Publication date 2014
Host editors
  • N. Melnik
Book title Proceedings of IATL 2013
Series MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
Event IATL 29
Pages (from-to) 1-13
Publisher Cambridge, MA: MITWPL
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract Dutch-speaking adults and children were tested to find out about their criteria to apply the relative adjective groot (En.: big, large). The hypothesis that leaps in the distribution trigger cutoff points between the items that will and will not be called groot was confirmed for the adults, but not for the children.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at http://www.iatl.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/IATL29_Booij-Sassoon.pdf
Other links http://mitwpl.mit.edu/catalog/mwpl72/
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