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Peer reviewedVincent-Smith, Lisbeth; And Others – Child Development, 1974
The acquisition of language-receptive processes in preschool children was studied using a word association task. (ST)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedBohannon, John Neil, III – Child Development, 1976
This study examined the relationship between syntax discrimination and other language skills with 50 children each in kindergarten, first grade and second grade. Also, the children were asked to imitate and show comprehension of normal and scrambled grammar sentences. (Author/JH)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Grammar
Peer reviewedLarson, Stephen; Hudson, Floyd G. – Child Development, 1973
Studied the relationship between auditory ability and oral form discrimination in children with varying degrees of speech and language development. Results lend support to motor theory of speech perception. (ST)
Descriptors: Blindness, Deafness, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedKatz, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedTrehub, Sandra E. – Child Development, 1976
Infants 5-17 weeks of age were presented with foreign sounds which were contingent upon their nonnutritive sucking. Significant differences were found for experimental versus control (no sound change) subjects. It was found that adults achieved perfect accuracy with English contrasts but readily confused the foreign contrasts. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Stimuli, Contrastive Linguistics, Discrimination Learning
