NVESTIGATING LEXICAL ACQUISITION PATTERNS: CONTEXT AND COGNITION

Table 7.3: Criteria met by all the children who took part in Experiment 2............ 188

Table 7.4: Post-test measurements of Experiment 2............................................... 189

Table 7.5: Children’s performance (means and sds) on the baseline measures.... 196

Table 7.6: Children’s performance (means and sds) on the naming task by group
across testing........................................................................................................... 198

Table 7.7: Error analysis of children’s responses in the naming task..................... 201

Table 7.8: Children’s responses in the naming task across testing......................... 202

Table 7.9: Responses in the multiple choice task.................................................... 207

Table 7.10: Children’s responses in the multiple choice task across testing..........   208

Table 7.11: Types of properties mentioned in children’s definitions..................... 213

Table 7.12: Children’s performance in the short questions task across testing......   226

Table 7.13: Performance (means and sds) in the categorisation questions by
group across testing............................................................................. 228

Table 7.14: Types of justifications provided in the association task...................... 240

Table 7.15: Types of contrasts provided in the contrast task.................................. 255

Table 7.16: Children’s provision (means and sds) of “animal contrasts” in the
contrast task by group across testing................................................... 256

Table 7.17: Types of properties mentioned in children’s stories............................ 267

Table 7.18: Distribution of children’s references to the target word during the
story generation task............................................................................ 273

Table 7.19: Children’s overall word learning (means and sds) by group across
testing................................................................................................... 282

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