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Peer reviewedVincent-Smith, Lisbeth; And Others – Child Development, 1974
The acquisition of language-receptive processes in preschool children was studied using a word association task. (ST)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedWetstone, Harriet S.; Friedlander, Bernard Z. – Child Development, 1973
The study investigated the communicative effectiveness of word order in preschoolers' comprehension of meaning using simple questions and commands in an at-home play context. (ST)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedOviatt, Sharon L. – Child Development, 1982
Examines the development of infants' ability to begin recognizing novel referents of common object names. In particular, the present experiment investigated the development of 12- to 20-month-old infants' ability to infer that an unfamiliar but categorically related object can be designated by a newly learned name for the object class. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation
