Figure 7.14. Total number of correct responses in the “world knowledge” questions by
children’s prior knowledge of the lexical items across testing
I I Unknown words
∏ Partially represented words
Is performance in the short questions task influenced by the semantic domain of the lexical
items?
Categorisation questions
Figure 7.15 shows that children’s performance in the categorisation questions did not differ
by the semantic domain of the lexical items. Statistical analysis revealed no significant
differences.
Figure 7.15 Total number of correct responses in the “categorisation questions” by
semantic domain across testing
World knowledge questions
Figure 7.16 shows that all the children performed significantly better in the words describing
artifacts than in the words describing animals across testing (Wilcoxon: Pl: Z=4.9, p<.0000;