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Mental Terms and the Development of Certainty.
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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
Cognitive Correlates of Infant Attention and Maternal Stimulation over the First Year of Life.
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Ruddy, Margaret G.; Bornstein, Marc H. – Child Development, 1982
Investigates the predictability of cognitive differences at 12 months from infant and maternal behaviors at 4 months. Overall, the results show that some individual differences in cognition may be predictable across the first year of life. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior, Object Manipulation
Relations between Semantic and Cognitive Development in the One-Word Stage: The Specificity Hypothesis.
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Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 1986
Compares two types of semantic development (the acquisition of disappearance words and success-failure words) to performance on two types of cognitive tasks (object-permanence and means-ends tasks) among infants. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Stylistic Variation at the "Single-Word" Stage: Relations between Maternal Speech Characteristics and Children's Vocabulary Composition and Usage.
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Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Rowland, Caroline F. – Child Development, 1997
Examined relationships between early vocabulary composition, early language use, and properties of mothers' child-directed speech at 10 words. Found that, when the effects of the child on the mother at 10 words was controlled, there was a negative correlation between mothers' production of speech illustrating word boundaries and the percentage of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Individual Differences, Infants
Children Talk about the Time and Aspect of Actions.
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Harner, Lorraine – Child Development, 1981
Questions whether children's use of language indicates they (1) understand temporal sequence, (2) distinguish goal-oriented from nongoal-oriented activities, and (3) prefer discussing the aspect of events prior to the time of events. Also investigates whether findings for past and future conditions are parallel. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Comprehension, Concept Formation
Constancy of Gender Identity for Self and Others in Children between the Ages of Three and Seven.
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Gouze, Karen R.; Nadelman, Lorraine – Child Development, 1980
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Developmental Vocabulary, Perceptual Development
The Development of Speech Act Comprehension in Mentally Retarded Individuals and Nonretarded Children.
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Abbeduto, 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
Young Children's Recall and Reconstruction of Audio and Audiovisual Narratives.
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Gibbons, 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
Developmental Milestones: Sign Language Acquisition and Motor Development.
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Bonvillian, John D.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Studied across a 16-month period, young children of deaf parents showed accelerated early language development, on the average producing their first recognizable sign at 8.5 months, their tenth sign at 13.2 months, and their first sign combination at 17.0 months. Findings are inconsistent with previously reported patterns of synchrony between…
Descriptors: Deafness, Infant Behavior, Infants, Language Acquisition
Verbal-Behavioral Dissociations in Development
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Woolley, Jacqueline D. – Child Development, 2006
Verbal and behavioral measures of children's knowledge are frequently dissociated. These situations represent a largely untapped but important resource for furthering an understanding of human cognition. In this paper, verbal-behavioral dissociations in children are discussed and analyzed, drawing from a wide range of domains. The article explores…
Descriptors: Children, Objectives, Verbal Development, Behavior Development