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Sentence Imitation in Pre-School Children

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Miller, Jon F. – Language and Speech, 1973

Reports a study investigating surface structure complexity, transformational sentence type, and sentence length as variables in a sentence imitation task with preschool children. (TO)

Descriptors: Child Language, Language Research, Linguistics, Preschool Children

Children's Language Coding in Short-Term Memory

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Locke, John L. – Language and Speech, 1973

Presents a review of various studies on the acquisition, nature, and function of language coding in children's learning. (TO)

Descriptors: Child Language, Classical Conditioning, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition

Learning to Be Contingent: Retarded Children's Responses to Their Mothers' Requests.

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Scherer, Nancy J.; Owings, Nathaniel O. – Language and Speech, 1984

Reports a study in which Late Stage 1 Down's syndrome children's responses were examined for their pragmatic and semantic relationships to four types of requests used by mothers. Findings indicate the responses used by retarded children and normal children are the same at this linguistic stage. (SED)

Descriptors: Child Language, Connected Discourse, Downs Syndrome, Listening Comprehension