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Sun, Xiaojun; Tian, Yuan; Zhang, Yongxin; Xie, Xiaochun; Heath, Melissa A.; Zhou, Zongkui – School Psychology International, 2015
With China's rapidly developing economy and increasing urbanization, many adults from rural areas migrate to urban areas for better paid jobs. A side effect of this migration is that parents frequently leave their children behind (left-behind children). This research investigated left-behind children's and non-left-behind children's psychological,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural to Urban Migration, Migrants, Children
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Raymond, William D.; Healy, Alice F.; McDonnel, Samantha; Healy, Charlotte A. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Morphological systems have been pivotal in exploring cognitive mechanisms of language use and acquisition. Adult English definite article form preference seems to depend non-deterministically on multiple factors. A corpus study of adult spontaneous speech revealed similar patterns of variability. In an experiment, article variant preferences of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Speech Communication
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Crystal, David S.; Watanabe, Hirozumi; Wu, Chin; Weinfurt, Kevin – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Concepts of human differences were studied among 5th and 11th graders in the United States, Japan, and China. Relative to their peers, more American students noted differences in appearance/attractiveness and material resources; more Japanese noted various physical features, and more Chinese noted specific behaviors. With increasing age, Americans…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children
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Cote, Linda R.; Azar, Sandra T. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1997
The influence of child age and parent and child gender on parents' attributions and responses to their children's social and academic outcomes was studied with 76 dual-parent families of fifth, eighth, and eleventh graders. Results suggest the complexity of the interactions among these factors. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Children