Table 5 shows the average number of nouns, verbs, concrete nouns, and action verbs in utterance-initial and final positions in the 200 utterances of caregiver language samples.
Moreover, this seems particularly the case for concrete nouns and, to some extent, for abstract nouns and adjectives.
Moreover, concrete nouns and verbs were transferred more than abstract nouns and verbs, suggesting that level of concreteness influences lexical access in bilinguals.
All items are concrete nouns that should be familiar to children of the included age group.
In sum, across all four association conditions, concrete nouns and verbs evoked a higher proportion of equivalent responses than abstract nouns and verbs.
This view is further reinforced by the issue of polysemy for concrete nouns.
For mass nouns occurring in count contexts (using the quantifier many) the learner judgements were more accurate for the mass concrete nouns.
The majority (91%) of the distractors were nouns (80% concrete nouns and 11% abstract nouns).
