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This study purposes to examine the effect of lexical head nouns and the process of comparison on children's acquisition of adjectives across basic-level object categories (experiment 1), and within basic-level object categories (experiment 2). Experiment 1 used three conditions such as the lexical head noun condition, the non-lexical head noun condition, and the no-word condition across basic-level object categories. The results showed that children were able to generalize novel adjectives to the objects across basic level categories in the lexical head noun condition, but not in the no-word condition as well as the non-lexical noun condition. The procedure of experiment 2 was the same as that of experiment 1, except using objects within basic-level categories. The results showed that children were able to generalize novel adjective to the objects across basic level categories in the non-lexical head noun condition as well as the lexical head noun condition, but not in the no-word condition. It implies that the role of lexical information, the comparison process, and the category concept mayd interact to generalize the meaning of novel adjectives in Korean.
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