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Horgan, Dianne – Journal of Child Language, 1978
How a child answers questions provides information about how he or she processes input. A child's early responses to questions at age one year, three months, were compared to her responses at one year, seven months, when she was in the two-word stage. (SW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis
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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
Bowerman, Melissa – 1977
The acquisition of rules for formulating causative verbs was studied with children over a period of a few years. Most of the data is based on the spontaneous speech of the author's two daughters, from age 2;6 to 6;2 and from age 2;4 to 3;11. It was hypothesized that there are at least two prerequisites for the child's formulation of a general rule…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Newport, Elissa L.; Gleitman, Henry – 1977
This article hypothesizes that language repetition of young children (in the sense used by Kobashigawa and Snow) does not help language acquisition. The evidence comes from the results of a prior study in which no indication was found that mothers who repeat themselves a great deal have children who acquire language more quickly. However,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Bock, J. Kathryn; Hornsby, Mary E. – 1977
The ability of children at different ages to distinguish instructions to "ask" from instructions to "tell" and the types of structures used to express these directives were studied. Subjects were 120 children, aged 2 years 6 months to 6 years 6 months. Children were instructed to either ask or tell an adult or another child to give them puzzle…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills