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Carter, Allyson K.; Clopper, Cynthia G. – Language and Speech, 2002
English-speaking children reduce words by omitting syllables in certain predictable patterns. To better understand the nature of phonological reductions in children, this study explored whether adults produce predictable output patterns when reducing words. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, College Students, English
Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky – 1996
A study investigated the relationship between formal and conversational logic. Thirty-two male and 32 female college students evaluated the conclusions of conditional syllogism and participated in an interview adapted from Deanna Kuhn's (1991) monograph, "The Skills of Argument." Students were asked to provide explanations for several…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Otsu, Yukio, Ed. – Mita Working Papers in Psycholinguistics, 1993
This volume of working papers in psycholinguistics, from the "MITA Psycholinguistics Circle", contains the following articles: "Some Problems in the Acquisition of Derived Nouns" (Mika Endo); "World Knowledge in Children's Sentence Comprehension" (Yuki Hirose); "Examining the Including and Excluding Roles of…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Children, College Students, Elementary Education