The development of meaning in children's descriptive terms.

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" . . . we would expect that correlated attributes would appear in experienced speakers' usage, in situations of prediction and metaphorical extension, but not in detonation where the evidence for attribute discrimination is available. In new learners, however, one term may apply to both attributes, which are not in fact discriminated, or both terms may appear as interchangeable synonyms for the two undiscriminated attributes . . ‥ A reduction with age is predicted with respect to the use of the wrong terms when a difference in only one attribute of the correlated set is present." The hypothesis received support. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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