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Peer reviewedSchwantes, Frederick M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Two experiments investigated sentence context effects on the naming times of sentence completion words by third-grade children and college students. The semantic acceptability of the word in the sentence context had a much greater influence on children's word identification times than adults'. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Context Clues, Prediction
