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Peer reviewedScholnick, Ellin Kofsky – Discourse Processes, 1987
Assesses three papers in this volume, those by Wellman and Estes, Olson and Torrance, and Hall and Nagy, for their treatment of the following: (1) definition of semantic space, (2) defining children's processes of understanding that space, and (3) describing the contexts in which cognitive language is used. (AEW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Discourse Analysis
Download full textOller, John W., Jr. – 1994
This paper expands on schematic theory through a review of recent work in the field of semiotics. Content and formal schemata are shown to be grounded respectively in perceptual (abductive) and indexical (inductive) strategies of inference. A third kind of schemata is based on deductive generalization and referred to as abstract schemata. All…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Comprehension, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedOrtony, Andrew – Discourse Processes, 1987
Critically examines papers by Wellman and Estes, Olson and Torrance, and Hall and Nagy. (AEW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
