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Understanding Individual Differences in Language Development across the School Years. Language and Speech Disorders
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Tomblin, J. Bruce, Ed.; Nippold, Marilyn A., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014
This volume presents the findings of a large-scale study of individual differences in spoken (and heard) language development during the school years. The goal of the study was to investigate the degree to which language abilities at school entry were stable over time and influential in the child's overall success in important aspects of…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Longitudinal Studies
Sequential Memory in Children with and without Language Impairment.
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Gillam, Ronald B.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
This study of sequential memory in 16 children with language impairment found that list-final suffix effect was substantially larger than in control children, even though other aspects of their recall were normal. Children with language impairment were more dependent upon unanalyzed acoustic and phonetic representations of speech. Response…
Descriptors: Children, Language Impairments, Language Processing, Recall (Psychology)
The Development of Constraints on Symbol-Meaning Structure in Notation: Evidence from Production, Interpretation, and Forced-Choice Judgments.
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Cohen, Sophia R. – Child Development, 1985
Used descriptive analysis and a forced choice task to investigate childrens' and adults' production, interpretation, and judgment of notation. Results showed that young children may not impose the same symbol-meaning structure at decoding that was proposed at encoding. Only after this ability develops does a preference for one form-one function…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Encoding (Psychology), Language Acquisition
Sources of Difficulty in the Young Child's Understanding of Metaphorical Language.
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Vosniadou, Stella; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Reports three experiments which examined preschool, first-grade, and third-grade children's understanding of metaphorical language. Subjects acted out short stories which ended in metaphorical sentences by using toys. Predictability of the story endings and the complexity of the metaphorical sentences are found to affect metaphor comprehension.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Figurative Language
Segmentation and Speech Perception in Relation to Reading Skill: A Developmental Analysis.
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Snowling, Maggie; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Describes three experiments that examined the processing of speech by dyslexic readers. Compares their performance with that of age-matched and reading-ability-matched controls. Shows that dyslexics have difficulty with the nonlexical procedures involved in verbal repetition. (HOD)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Children, Comparative Analysis, Dyslexia
Development of Creative Language Devices in Signed and Oral Production.
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Marschark, Marc; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Examines the effects of age on hearing children's oral rather than written story production and whether there are age-related changes in the signed productions of deaf children comparable to those observed in hearing age-mates. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis