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French, Lucia Ann – Child Development, 1989
Assesses whether 30 children aged three-five years had a preferred direction in responding to "when"-questions and whether this preference could be influenced by story structure. Results indicated that children showed a preference for "after"-type responses and that productions of "before" were more likely to be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Semantics

Ravn, Karen E.; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 1984
Examined five possible rules that children might use to interpret the terms "big" and "little." Increasing consistency in rule usage appeared to be the most significant developmental progression for children between the ages of three and five with respect to these terms. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children

Bushnell, Emily W.; Maratsos, Michael P. – Child Development, 1984
Abilities of 2-, 5-, and 7-year-old children to interpret, judge acceptability of, and produce class extensions were assessed. It was concluded that increasing ability to deal appropriately with class extensions is primarily due to general advances in language acquisition rather than to any development unique to the class-extension word-formation…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Infants, Language Research

Bohannon, John Neil, III; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Reports two studies which found a relationship between awareness of word order in sentences and reading readiness and achievement for children in kindergarten through third grade. Suggests this type of metalinguistic awareness may be important to early reading because it helps children to detect meaningful relationships between words. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Children, Longitudinal Studies, Reading Achievement, Reading Readiness

Moore, Chris; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Examines the understanding of the pragmatic function of mental terms ("think,""know,""guess") to express the relative certainty of 69 children aged 3-11. Results showed an improvement with age for the "know-think" and "know-guess" contrasts, but no improvement with age for the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition

Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Child Development, 1985
Findings suggest that semantic knowledge for concrete objects is represented and organized in similar ways in autistic, retarded, and normal children. Previous findings on cognitive deficits in autistic children are more likely related to their inability to use cognitive representations in an appropriate and flexible manner. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Autism, Classification, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis

Akiyama, M. Michael – Child Development, 1985
English- and Japanese-speaking children aged four and five were asked to say the opposite of statements. Statements varied in truth value and unmarked/marked membership of antonym pairs. Findings did not support a universality hypothesis; differences were found between the two groups in the use of semantic and syntactic denial. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Children, Japanese, Language Acquisition, Language Research

Goodman, Gail S.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Studied bilingual children and children learning a second language using a picture-word interference task. The printed distractors interfered with naming both on trials where the distractor and naming language were the same and on trials where they were different. These and other results question whether an "input switch" operates for bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Elementary Education, Interference (Language)

Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 1986
Compares two types of semantic development (the acquisition of disappearance words and success-failure words) to performance on two types of cognitive tasks (object-permanence and means-ends tasks) among infants. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages

Ackerman, Brian P. – Child Development, 1986
Two experiments examine use of defining, characteristic, category, and identical semantic features of word concept information in cued recall. College adults and 7- to 11-year-old children were shown word triplets in which context words were related or unrelated to final target word. Results suggest meaning features differ in providing medium for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Concept Formation