Vocabulary Development A Morphological

This monograph studies research conducted for the purpose of investigating the relationship between vocabulary recognition and morphological knowledge during the early and middle elementary school years. The findings suggest that lexical development can be characterized in terms of increasing morphological complexity, and as a child ages, the proportion of known complex words that the child figured out by analyzing their morphological structure increased.

Jeremy M. Anglin received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970. He is associate professor of psychology and currently the chair of the Developmental Psychology Division at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include language acquisition and cognitive development. Several of his recent studies have focused on lexical, semantic, and conceptual development during childhood. He has previously been a consulting editor for the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development and has served on the editorial board of Child Development. He is the author of The Growth of Word Meaning and of Word, Object, and Conceptual Development and the editor of Beyond the Information Given: Studies in the Psychology of Knowing.

George A. Miller received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1946. He is a cognitive psychologist at Princeton University.

Pamela C. Wakefield received her B.S. from Upsala College in 1982. She is a member of the research staff at Princeton University.

Abstract

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Introduction

1

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Estimating Children's Vocabulary Knowledge

8

(19)

Morphological Development

27

(16)

Constructing a Basis for Estimating Vocabulary Knowledge

43

(14)

A Study of Vocabulary Development in Elementary School Children

57

(23)

Distinguishing Potentially Knowable Words from Psychologically Basic Vocabulary

80

(38)

Vocabulary Development and the Growth of Morphological Knowledge

118

(69)

Appendix: The 196 Words on Which Children were Tested, with Comments on Their Morphological Classifications

153

(4)

References

157

(9)

Acknowledgments

166

(1)

COMMENTARY

On Anglin's Analysis of Vocabulary Growth

167

(9)

George A. Miller

Pamela C. Wakefield

REPLY

Knowing Versus Learning Words

176

(11)

Jeremy M. Anglin

Contributors

187

(1)

Statement of Editorial Policy

188

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Vocabulary Development A Morphological Analysis

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