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Tracy E. Reuter; Lauren L. Emberson – Journal of Child Language, 2025
Numerous developmental findings suggest that infants and toddlers engage predictive processing during language comprehension. However, a significant limitation of this research is that associative (bottom-up) and predictive (top-down) explanations are not readily differentiated. Following adult studies that varied predictiveness relative to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Processing, Language Acquisition
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Muma, John R.; Zwycewicz-Emory, Carol L. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
The present study is an attempt to apply a paradigm to the shift of verbal behavior before and after the age of seven in order to see if linguistic contexts affect verbal behavior differentially before seven or after seven. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Child Language, Cognitive Processes