A World of Relations: Relational Words

Julia Parish-Morris; Shannon M. Pruden; Weiyi Ma; Kathy Hirsh-Pasek; Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311129.003.0012

A World of Relations: Relational Words

Julia Parish-Morris^*, Shannon M. Pruden, Weiyi Ma, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

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Abstract

This chapter examines how children learn relational terms through the lens of verbs and prepositions. After reviewing evidence that verbs and prepositions are particularly difficult to learn, it examines several hypotheses to explain this disparity. The chapter concludes that although children have the foundations necessary to learn these words, they have trouble mapping relational words to their referents.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Words and the Mind
Subtitle of host publication	How Words Capture Human Experience
Editors	Barbara Malt, Phillip Wolff
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	219-242
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199776924
ISBN (Print)	9780195311129
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311129.003.0012
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2010

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Children
Language learning
Prepositions
Relational terms
Verbs

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