IRICE   05408
INSTITUTO ROSARIO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Adjective Learning by Spanish-Speakers Children and Adults. The Impact of Morphology and Semantic Information
Autor/es:
PERALTA, OLGA A.; MAREOVICH, FLORENCIA; TAVERNA, ANDREA S.
Revista:
JOURNAL OF GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY
Editorial:
Taylor & Francis
Referencias:
Año: 2020 vol. 181 p. 54 - 67
ISSN:
0022-1325
Resumen:
The purpose of this research was to explore the kind of information Spanish-speaking 3-year-old children and adults use when learning adjectives in a joint picturebook reading situation. The impact of two linguistic clues was studied; a morphological clue (adjective suffix) and a semantic clue (descriptive information concerning the property). Results show that for children the description was decisive to map the new adjective with the property; for adults, instead, the presence of the suffix was crucial. These results illustrate a developmental shift in the sort of clues that shapes adjective learning.