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Mental Terms and the Development of Certainty.
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Moore, Chris; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Examines the understanding of the pragmatic function of mental terms ("think,""know,""guess") to express the relative certainty of 69 children aged 3-11. Results showed an improvement with age for the "know-think" and "know-guess" contrasts, but no improvement with age for the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
A Multifaceted Academic Self-Concept: Its Hierarchical Structure and Its Relation to Academic Achievement.
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Marsh, Herbert W.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Students--516 male and 475 female 11th and 12th graders in Ottawa (Canada)--completed academic self-concept scales from three different instruments to test the Marsh-Shavelson model that accounts for the separation of math and verbal self-concepts. The two self-concepts are separable and should be considered so in future research. (TJH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Mathematics Achievement
Vocal Development of Infants with Very Low Birth Weight
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Rvachew, Susan; Creighton, Dianne; Feldman, Naida; Sauve, Reg – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2005
This study describes the vocal development of infants born with very low birth weights (VLBW). Samples of vocalizations were recorded from three groups of infants when they were 8, 12 and 18 months of age: preterm VLBW infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), preterm VLBW infants without BPD, and healthy full-term infants. Infants with BPD…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Premature Infants, Speech Skills, Verbal Development
Lexical Development during Middle Infancy: A Mutually Driven Infant-Caregiver Process.
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Dunham, Philip; Dunham, Frances – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Mothers' utterances were measured during interactions with their 13-month-old infants and correlated with measures of infants' productive lexical development at 13 and 24 months. Correlations between maternal measures and infants' lexical development were lower for employed mothers than for mothers who were full-time caregivers. (BC)
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Foreign Countries, Infants, Language Acquisition