Four experiments investigated 4‐year‐olds' understanding of adjective–noun
compositionality and their sensitivity to statistics when interpreting scalar adjectives. In …

Adjectives are a powerful tool for enriching vocabulary and developing conceptual
understanding. In early elementary and primary classrooms, across core and foundation …

This chapter gives an overview of reference-point models in psychology, linguistics, and
other areas of research. My intent here is to show that linguistic aspects of reference-point …

Two studies demonstrate that children have knowledge of scalar distinctions between three
sub-classes of gradable adjectives: relative (big, long), absolute with a maximal standard …

This work investigates children's early semantic representations of gradable adjectives
(GAs) and proposes that infants perform a probabilistic analysis of the input to learn about …

The purpose of this article is to examine both the process and product of vocabulary learning
in a task-based instructional context. The article reports a study that investigated the …

The language involved in de-contextualized integer comparisons poses challenges, as
students may interpret “most” based on absolute values rather than on order. Using the …

Recent research has suggested that young children have relatively well-developed trait
concepts. However, this literature overlooks potential age-related differences in children's …

We performed three experiments to investigate whether adjectives can modulate the
sensorimotor activation elicited by nouns. In Experiment 1, nouns of graspable objects were …

This article presents a study on the time course of the acquisition of comparison
constructions. The order in which comparison constructions (comparatives, measure …