Case studies Flashcards
1
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describe cruttendon’s study and what it highlights
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-carried our research on intonation using football results as aural stimulus
-intonation used in 1st teams score enabled adults to accuracy predict home win,away or draw
-children (7-11) youngest were largely unsuccessful and oldest were significantly less successful than adults
2
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nelson 1973
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placed the early words of children into 4 categories: naming, action, social and modifying. she found that around 60% of a child’s first word are nouns
3
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bloom 2004
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argued that this supposed noun bias merely reflects the relative frequency of nouns in language ( outnumbering verbs 5:1 in most dictionaries)
