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Peer reviewedRosenthal, Doreen A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1979
Among 128 girls attending a private day school in Australia, it was found that changes in semantic aspects of language which occur at the formal operational stage appear to be related to whether a child is classified at the formal operational level on a pendulum problem. (RH)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Linguistic Competence, Research, Semantics
PDF pending restorationLivingston, Kenneth R. – 1979
A theoretical distinction is made between the growth of word meaning and the development of word sense in Vygotsky's terms. A recall from semantic memory task and the semantic differential were used to operationalize these two conceptions of meaning in a study of 72 children aged 5 to 10 years. Results replicated typical findings for the growth of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Developmental Vocabulary, Language Acquisition
