Vocabulary Development: A Morphological Analysis

Abstract v

I. Introduction 1

II. Estimating Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge 8

III. Morphological Development 27

IV. Constructing a Basis for Estimating Vocabulary Knowledge 43

V. A Study of Vocabulary Development in Elementary School Children 57

VI. Distinguishing Potentially Knowable Words from Psychologically Basic Vocabulary 80

VII. Vocabulary Development and the Growth of Morphological Knowledge 118

Appendix: The 196 Words on Which Children were Tested, with Comments on their Morphological Classifications 153

References 157

Acknowledgements 166

Commentary

On Anglin’s Analysis of Vocabulary Growth 167
George A. Miller and Pamela C. Wakefield

Reply

Knowing Versus Learning Words 176
Jeremy M. Anglin

Contributors 187

Statement of Editorial Policy 188