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Children's Understanding of Speech Acts in Unconventional Directive Frames
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Ackerman, Brian P. – Child Development, 1978
Examined young children's interpretations of the meanings of indirect speech acts (e.g. it's 10 o'clock) in paragraphs of a contextual type biasing a literal interpretation (time of day) or an extraliteral interpretation (time to prepare for bed). Memory for these meanings was also assessed. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Comprehension, Context Clues
Contextual Integration and Utterance Interpretation: The Ability of Children and Adults to Interpret Sarcastic Utterances.
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Ackerman, Brian P. – Child Development, 1982
Examines whether young children and adults are able to interpret sarcastic utterances and whether placements of contextual information before or after the utterance differentially affect interpretation. Results obtained from first and third graders and from college students indicated that different placements of contextual information do affect…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Communication Skills
Developmental Differences in the Use of Conceptual Features in Retrieving Episodic Information from Memory.
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Ackerman, Brian P. – Child Development, 1986
Two experiments examine use of defining, characteristic, category, and identical semantic features of word concept information in cued recall. College adults and 7- to 11-year-old children were shown word triplets in which context words were related or unrelated to final target word. Results suggest meaning features differ in providing medium for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Concept Formation