Adjective Definitions and the Influence of Word Frequency.
The present investigation is a study of the development of adjective definitions given by participants in Grades 6 and 10 and by young adults, as well as the influence of word frequency on those definitions. A total of 150 participants (50 per age group) wrote definitions for 6 high-frequency and 6...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 46; no. 5; pp. 1061 - 1077 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
October 2003
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