Granville Stanley Hall

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An American psychologist and teacher who studied how children think and learn

proper noun
/ˈɡræn.vɪl ˈstæn.li hɔl/

: Granville Stanley Hall

Granville Stanley Hall was one of the founders of child psychology as a scientific discipline.

Examples

The lecture emphasized the contributions of Granville Stanley Hall to the study of adolescence.
Granville Stanley Hall founded Clark University.
Many of Granville Stanley Hall's theories still influence modern educational approaches.
Granville Stanley Hall was influential.
Granville Stanley Hall was one of the founders of child psychology as a scientific discipline.
Many of Granville Stanley Hall's theories still influence modern educational approaches.
The lecture emphasized the contributions of Granville Stanley Hall to the study of adolescence.

Surface Forms

Granville Stanley Hall main

Morphology

Granville + Stanley + Hall

This string is a proper name referring to a specific historical individual; knowing the literal words 'Granville', 'Stanley' and 'Hall' does not let a learner infer that it denotes an American psychologist or educator. Proper nouns are referential and arbitrary rather than compositional, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituent words would not derive the MWE's referent or meaning without world knowledge.

Etymology

Granville Stanley Hall was an American psychologist who was one of the first people to study children and the teenage years in a scientific way. Because he set up early psychology labs and wrote important books about childhood and teaching, his name is remembered as a founder of child and educational psychology.