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Schleepen, Tamara M. J.; Jonkman, Lisa M. – Cognitive Development, 2012
In adults, the ability to apply semantic grouping strategies has been found to depend on working memory. To investigate this relation in children, two sort-recall tasks (one without and one with a grouping instruction) were administered to 6-12-year-olds. The role of working memory was examined by means of mediation analyses and by assessing…
Descriptors: Semantics, Short Term Memory, Children, Task Analysis
Morgan, Gary; Herman, Rosalind; Barriere, Isabelle; Woll, Bencie – Cognitive Development, 2008
In the course of language development children must solve arbitrary form-to-meaning mappings, in which semantic components are encoded onto linguistic labels. Because sign languages describe motion and location of entities through iconic movements and placement of the hands in space, child signers may find spatial semantics-to-language mapping…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Sign Language, Language Acquisition

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