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Peer reviewedAbbeduto, Leonard; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Studied the development of speech act comprehension in 36 retarded and 36 nonretarded children at the developmental ages of five, seven, and nine years. Retarded and nonretarded individuals followed the answer obviousness rule and used the contextual and linguistic clues available to respond to yes-no interrogative sentences. (RJC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedGibbons, Jane; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Compares the effects of audio and audiovisual presentation on young children's cognitive processing while explicitly controlling the amount and complexity of information. (HOD)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
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
