Paving the way to adjective learning via picturebooks: Strategies of children and adults

ANDREA TAVERNA; OLGA PERALTA; FLORENCIA MAREOVICH

Louisville

Congreso; COgnitive Development Society Meeting; 2019

The purpose of this research was to explore the kind of clue Spanish-Speakers 3-year-old children and adults use when learning adjectives in a picturebook reading interaction. The impact of two 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 clue that shapes adjective learning in a picturebook reading context.