Intended to investigate children's competence in producing verbalizations to aid learning, this study deals with young children's ability to generate sentences, either covertly or overtly, with concurrent relevant motor activity. Sixty children at each of two age levels--four years and seven years--were employed as subjects. It was hypothesized that covert sentence generation among the four-year-olds would be facilitated by the opportunity to engage in concurrent relevant motor activity, and it was further predicted that overt sentence generation would be hindered by concurrent motor activity among the four-year-olds but not among the seven-year-olds. The hypotheses were not supported by the recall score data which showed small differences in favor of the manipulation groups within both age levels and under all verbalization instructions. (Author/RB)