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Peer reviewedEhri, Linnea C. – Child Development, 1977
Third- and sixth-grade readers were asked to label sets of pictures printed with distracting words (either nouns, adjectives, or functors) and nonsense syllables. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Elementary Education, Function Words, Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedRosinski, Richard R. – Child Development, 1977
Analysis of the performance of second-, fourth-, sixth-grade, and college-level subjects on picture-word interference tasks indicated that distractor words belonging to the same semantic category as pictures produced more interference than either unrelated words or nonsense trigrams. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: College Students, Elementary School Students, Interference (Language), Learning Modalities
Peer reviewedGoodman, Gail S.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Studied bilingual children and children learning a second language using a picture-word interference task. The printed distractors interfered with naming both on trials where the distractor and naming language were the same and on trials where they were different. These and other results question whether an "input switch" operates for bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Elementary Education, Interference (Language)
