Children use vague adjectives among their first dozens of words ( Peccei 1994 ) and understand some of their intricacies as early as their 24th month ( Ebeling and Gelman 1994 ) .
children’s use of context in interpreting ”big” and ”little” child development
K S Ebeling S A Gelman
A search of the British National Corpus ( BNC ) , for example , shows at least seven of the ten most frequent adjectives ( last , other , new , good , old , great , high , small , different , large ) to be gradable . Children use vague adjectives among their first dozens of words ( Peccei 1994 ) and understand some of their intricacies as early as their 24th month ( Ebeling and Gelman 1994 ) . These
Children use vague adjectives among their first dozens of words ( Peccei 1994 ) and understand some of their intricacies as early as their 24th month ( @@CITATION ) .