The goal of this paper is to combine corpus methodology with experimental methods to gain
insights into the nature of antonymy as a lexico-semantic relation and the degree of …

Adjectives are essential for describing and differentiating concepts. However, they have a
protracted development relative to other word classes. Here we measure three-and four …

Experimental studies demonstrate that contrast helps toddlers to extend the meanings of
novel adjectives. This study explores whether antonym co-occurrence in spontaneous …

This paper is a longitudinal investigation of adjective use by children aged 1; 8− 2; 8,
speaking Dutch, German, French, Hebrew, and Turkish, and by their caregivers. Each …

This paper investigates whether three-year-olds are able to process attributive adjectives
(eg, softpillow) as they hear them and to predict the noun (pillow) on the basis of the …

Purpose The aims of the present research were to determine (a) the age at which children
with typical development understand the concept of opposite,(b) whether this is related to …

The interpretation of size terms involves constructing contextually-relevant reference points
by combining visual cues with knowledge of typical object sizes. This study aims to establish …

When asked about their opinion of how good a pair of lexical items are as antonyms,
speakers judge slow–fast to be a pair of strongly antonymic adjectives, while slow–rapid …

A central question in language acquisition research is how language is acquired by children
in naturalistic settings. For a long time, it has been assumed, within the influential generative …

Antonymy is a lexical-semantic relation of opposition which plays a central role in the
organization of the mental lexicon and discourse (Cruse 1988; Dees 1962; 1964; Jones …