Instantiation of Word Meanings in Children. Technical Report No. 46

Instantiation of Word Meanings in Children. Technical Report No. 46 [electronic resource] / Richard C. Anderson and Others.

Previous research has shown that adults tend to narrow the meanings of words encountered in context, a process that has been termed instantiation. In the present study, 60 first and fourth graders selected pictures which best represented the meanings of sentences read to them. The sets of pictures i...

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Main Author: Anderson, Richard C.
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:
Cognitive Processes.
Comprehension.
Context Clues.
Elementary Education.
Grade 1.
Grade 4.
Language Acquisition.
Language Research.
Semantics.

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