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Apfelbaum, Keith S.; Hazeltine, Eliot; McMurray, Bob – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Early reading abilities are widely considered to derive in part from statistical learning of regularities between letters and sounds. Although there is substantial evidence from laboratory work to support this, how it occurs in the classroom setting has not been extensively explored; there are few investigations of how statistics among letters and…
Descriptors: Reading, Phonics, Learning, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Gelman, Susan A.; Ware, Elizabeth A.; Manczak, Erika M.; Graham, Susan A. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The present studies test 2 hypotheses: (1) that pedagogical contexts especially convey generic information (Csibra & Gergely, 2009) and (2) that young children are sensitive to this aspect of pedagogy. We examined generic language (e.g., "'Elephants' live in Africa") in 3 studies, focusing on informational versus narrative children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Childrens Literature, Parent Child Relationship