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Moerk, Ernst L. – 1973
The following are sketched in outline form: (1) functional antecedents and their implications for language--assimilation, accommodation, circular reactions/ feedback processes, classification, discrimination, functional equivalence, representation, transformation, communications; (2) semantic antecedents and their implications for language--human…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Infant Behavior, Infants

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
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Lewis, Michael – 1975
This study examined the social labels which are first used by infants, social differentiation on the basis of labeling behavior, and overgeneralization of social labels. Subjects were 81 infants from 9 to 36 months of age. The 9- to 24-month-olds were shown slides of themselves, their mothers, their fathers, and unfamiliar children, babies, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Fathers, Infants
Phillips, William – Parenting, 1997
Notes that children are "wired" to learn, and cites research indicating the importance of talking to an infant for his or her neuron and subsequent cognitive development. Suggests reading aloud, providing positive feedback, responding verbally to the child's actions, and increasing vocabulary. (HTH)
Descriptors: Brain, Caregiver Speech, Childhood Needs, Cognitive Development
Black, Kathryn Norcross; Campbell, Kathleen M. – 1974
This paper describes a study which examined the performance of 48 pairs of 18-month-old twins on the Mental Development Scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development to determine whether score differences would be found for the three subgroups of identical, fraternal same-sexed, and fraternal opposite-sexed twins. Of the 96 subjects, 46 (23…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Environmental Influences, Infants, Nature Nurture Controversy

Kuhl, Patricia K.; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Science, 1982
Indicates that 18- to 20-month-old infants can detect the correspondence between auditorially and visually perceived speech; that is, they manifest some of the components related to lip-reading phenomena in adults. This demonstration of the bimodal perception of speech in infancy has important implications for social, cognitive, and linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Infants

Tomasello, Michael; Akhtar, Nameera – Cognitive Development, 1995
Attempts to determine whether children can use social-pragmatic cues to determine "what kind" of referent, object, or action an adult intends to indicate with a novel word. Doubts that children assume that a novel word refers to whatever nameless object is present. Suggests that lexical acquisition rests fundamentally on children's…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Processing

Gathercole, Virginia C. Mueller; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1995
Examines whether knowledge of functional properties of a referent for a new name influences children's first guesses about whether that name refers to an object or a substance. Suggests that children do not rely on a single source of information, but rather draw on various kind of information, including perceptual characteristics of the entities…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Processing

Menyuk, Paula; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1991
Linguistic and cognitive development of 26 premature and 27 full-term infants was studied longitudinally over the first 3 years of life. Patterns of lexical and cognitive development did not differ substantially between groups, nor did standard language test measures indicate differences at the study's end except with very low birthweight…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Infant Behavior
Key, Mary Ritchie – 1976
Paralinguistic and kinesic expression begin at birth and are essential to the development of language. Rhythm, for example, a suprasegmental event, appears to be present at birth or prior to birth. The relationship of physiology to communication is evident in the observations of extra-linguistic aspects of communication, such as movement, the use…
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Karnes, Merle B.; And Others – 1969
To determine the relative effectiveness of different methods of preschool educational intervention for disadvantaged children, comparisons were made of five programs whose levels of structure ranged from the traditional nursery school to a highly structured preschool. Subjects were 79 4-year-olds representing a wide range of ability levels.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Home Programs

Naigles, Letitia R.; Hoff-Ginsberg, Erika – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Examined the extent to which maternal linguistic input enabled children to use syntactic bootstrapping. Studied uses of 25 common verbs in speech of 57 mothers to their 1-year olds and 2-year olds. Found that verbs can be used to create informative syntactic frames, syntactic frames can cue appropriate verb class, and multiple syntactic framing…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Gordon, Ira J.; And Others – 1969
Activities of the Institute for Development of Human Resources provide the information contained in this document. This first large-scale project of the institute was in parent education of disadvantaged mothers in the north central Florida area. The purpose of the project was to investigate a way in which early intervention into the lives of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Experience