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Development of Discourse Rules: Children's Use of Indexical Reference and Cohesion.
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Dent, Cathy H. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Examines the conditions under which children and adults use indexical words to refer to objects or to corefer with nouns in discourse. Subjects at three ages (6, 10, and adult) performed simple tasks and described their actions. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Context Effect, Language Research
Methods for Characterizing Participants' Nonmainstream Dialect Use in Child Language Research.
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Oetting, Janna B.; McDonald, Janet L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2002
This study compared three methods for identifying non-mainstream dialect use: listener judgment ratings, type-based counts of non-mainstream pattern use, token- based counts. Correct dialect classifications were made for 88 to 97 percent of participants, although regression algorithms had to be applied to the type- and token-based results. For…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Development, Children, Dialects
The Use of Language in Simple Classification Tasks by Children Who Are Blind.
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Dimcovic, N.; Tobin, M. J. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1995
Verbal and figurative classification tasks were presented to 30 blind and 30 sighted children (ages 6 to 11). Although younger blind children were significantly less efficient on tasks, older ones reached or were close to the level of their sighted peers. Analysis illustrates how the blind children adjusted their conceptual knowledge to their…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Blindness, Children, Classification
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