within-language synonyms

[Katie Alcock]

There are several of these equivalents on some of the CDIs but unless
parents circle the one their child produces and the data is entered with
this information, it won¹t be in everyone¹s database.

Katie Alcock


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From: Margaret Fleck <margaretmfleck at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "info-childes at googlegroups.com" <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:10:33 -0000
To: "info-childes at googlegroups.com" <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
Cc: Ginny Gathercole <v.c.gathercole at bangor.ac.uk>, Barbara Pearson
<bpearson at research.umass.edu>
Subject: Re: within-language synonyms


Admittedly it's only one pair, but there should be lots of data somewhere
about
whether and when kids acquire both members of the sofa/couch synonym pair
from the MacArthur CDI.

Margaret Fleck

--- On Mon, 3/15/10, Barbara Pearson <bpearson at research.umass.edu> wrote:
> 
> From: Barbara Pearson <bpearson at research.umass.edu>
> Subject: Re: within-language synonyms
> To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
> Cc: "Ginny Gathercole" <v.c.gathercole at bangor.ac.uk>, "Barbara Pearson"
> <bpearson at research.umass.edu>
> Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 6:31 AM
> 
> Dear Teresa,
> 
> I think your question is asking not about cross-language synonyms (or
> translation equivalents), but about synonyms within a single language. Is that
> right?
> 
> I believe Ginny Gathercole in the mid-1990s had at least a presentation (at
> the child language symposium at Stanford) and perhaps a paper that was written
> in response to Eve Clark's claim that the principle of contrast kept children
> from accepting synonyms.  Perhaps you could look those up, or maybe Ginny will
> weigh in here, too, with her own and other references.
> 
> Ciao,
> Barbara
> 
> On Mar 15, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Maria Teresa Guasti wrote:
> 
>> > 
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I am trying to find out when do monolingual children start to learn
>> synonymous words in their language? Do bilingual children start to do so in
>> one language early than monolingual peers  Could you point out to me some
>> reference for this topic.
>> > 
>> > Best
>> > Teresa
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