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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