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Peer reviewedMasterson, Julie J.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
Children (ages 9-13) with language-learning disabilities were administered 5 types of verbal analogies: synonyms, antonyms, linear order, category membership, and functional relationship. Subjects performed worse than mental age-matched children on all types of analogies and performed worse than language age-matched children on all types except…
Descriptors: Analogy, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedRidgeway, Doreen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Reports on data collected in nine age ranges from 18 months to 71 months that examined children's ability to understand emotion-descriptive adjectives when used by adults and their own use of these words in productive vocabulary. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Language
