Essays about: "The U-shaped age curve"

Found 2 essays containing the words The U-shaped age curve.

1. 1. Is the development of the English progressive in L1 children a U-shaped curve?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Carl-Staffan Svenbro; [2019]
   Keywords : progressive aspect; overgeneralization; U-Shaped development; L1; children; stative verbs; child language development; Eve; Adam; Sarah; Brown corpus; Carterette and Jones corpus; pattern-matching algorithm; adjusted frequencies; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This essay is concerned with whether the progressive aspect is overgeneralized by children, using it with stative verbs. The study targets the age interval 1 to 10 years and adults. The matter was investigated in several child corpora and adult corpora. READ MORE

3. 2. The Pursuit of Happiness - An econometric study on Swedish microdata

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Hampus Tunhammar; Malcolm Burenstam Linder; [2013]
   Keywords : Easterlin paradox; Determinants of happiness; Income-happiness puzzle; Subjective well-being; The U-shaped age curve;

   Abstract : Finding the possible sources of subjective well-being has become an increasingly popular field of research within economics. As the literature has evolved, a number of factors have been suggested to be important, however previous research is in some cases contradictory and thus somewhat incomplete. READ MORE