Spatial Terms: The Acquisition of Multiple Referential and Syntactic Mappings

The current study used a naturalistic, longitudinal design to investigate how children and parents use a set of early-acquired spatial terms (up, down, in, out, on, off ). Measures included the frequency, referential contexts, syntactic frames, and referent-syntax pairings of these words from 14 to...

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Main Authors: Priya Shimpi, Heidi Waterfall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00066/full