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Asbury, Charles A. – J Negro Educ, 1970
Descriptors: Black Youth, Cognitive Development, Intervention, Preschool Children
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Gold, Patricia Cohen; Horn, Pamela L. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1983
Reports results of preliminary analyses of intelligence and achievement in an adult tutorial project. Incarcerated adult illiterates volunteered to participate in a peer tutoring program wherein they received 27 hours of structured tutoring. Significant achievement was demonstrated in all areas; significant correlations were noted between IQ…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adult Literacy, Illiteracy, Intelligence Quotient
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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
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Childers, Jane B.; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Two studies investigated linguistic representations underlying English-speaking 2.5-year-olds' production of transitive utterances. Findings indicated that children trained with pronouns and nouns could produce a transitive utterance creatively with a novel verb. Results suggest that English-speaking children build many of their early linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Meints, Kerstin; Plunkett, Kim; Harris, Paul L.; Dimmock, Debbie – Cognitive Development, 2004
What role does contextual information play in children's early word comprehension? Using an inter-modal preferential looking task, we investigated how different background contexts influence children's looking times before and after an image has been named. Prior to the experiment, early comprehension of words was assessed using parental…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Toddlers, Word Recognition, Comprehension
Gordon, Peter – 1982
The basis for acquisition of categories in child language was investigated. The early encoding of the distinction between mass and count nouns was examined to determine whether children categorize them on the basis of semantic type or syntactic regularities. An experiment was designed in which semantic and syntactic cues were in competition:…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Language Acquisition, Nouns
Randall, Janet H. – 1982
Children's acquisition of agent nouns within a framework of morphological structural principles is explored. Language acquisition has been conceptualized as a process of parameter setting in which the learner is richly endowed with a vocabulary of primitives and rule schemata. Exposure to the primary data will be filled in from the range of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Morphology (Languages)
Day, David E. – Interchange, 1974
This article focuses on three aspects of language instruction in early childhood education: a) educational and sociological events which prompt concern over language behavior, b) results of research of the last 10 years, and c) suggestions for curriculum and instruction. (HMD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction, Language Skills
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Gardner, Howard; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1975
To assess children's capacities to effect appropriate "metaphoric links" and to discriminate among metaphors of varying appropriateness, a task probing verbal metaphoric skill was administered to subjects ranging in age from 4 to 19 years. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Children, Language Acquisition
Wahler, Robert G. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Study supported in part by Research Grant MH-13703-01 from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Reinforcement
CHOMSKY, NOAM – 1968
WITHIN THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING, THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE LINGUISTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STUDY OF GRAMMAR AND UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR, AND HOW THIS RELATIONSHIP CORRELATES WITH THE MECHANISMS OF HUMAN PERCEPTION AND LEARNING. HE EMPHASIZES THAT LANGUAGE IS NEITHER ENTIRELY INNOVATIVE NOR A "HABIT STRUCTURE," BUT RATHER IS…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Learning Theories, Psycholinguistics, Surface Structure
LeBlanc, Judith M. – 1968
To gain some insight into the problem of deviant speech development in low income populations, this study investigated the environmental factors that encourage the development of normal speech. Two specific questions were examined in this study: (1) If specific vocalized environmental sounds are presented contiguously with reinforcement, will…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Environmental Influences, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
SIMCHES, RAPHAEL F.; AND OTHERS – 1966
MANY CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY HAVE VARIOUS PERCEPTUAL HANDICAPS WHICH RESULT FROM THE NEUROLOGICAL IMPAIRMENT. TEACHING AIDS ARE DESCRIBED BY (1) NAME, (2) MATERIALS NEEDED IN CONSTRUCTION, (3) PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION, (4) EXPLANATION OF USE, AND (5) THE CONTRIBUTOR'S NAME. CATEGORIES OF AIDS INCLUDE (1) SENSORY DEVELOPMENT, (2) VERBAL…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Concept Formation, Educational Equipment, Educational Media
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Goldin-Meadow, Susan; And Others – Cognition, 1976
Two stages in the vocabulary development of two-year-olds are reported. In the earlier Receptive stage, the child says many fewer nouns than he understands and says no verbs at all although he understands many. The child then enters a Productive stage in which he says virtually all the nouns he understands plus his first verbs. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Comprehension, Language Acquisition
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Pickert, Sarah M.; Chase, Martha L. – Reading Teacher, 1978
Story retelling is suggested as a method to evaluate children's ability to comprehend, organize, and express language. (MKM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Oral Language
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