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Sasaki, Miho; Schwartz, Richard G.; Hisano, Masaki; Suzuki, Makihiko – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study investigated the auditory comprehension of Japanese sentences including relative clauses (RCs) by 52 Japanese-speaking children with typical development (TD) and 16 children with specific language impairment (SLI). Method: A picture-pointing task measured RC and main clause (MC) comprehension for object and subject relatives in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, Auditory Perception, Comprehension
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Noda, Mitsuru – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
This study aims to examine the developmental changes in young children's perception. A matching completion task consisting of three geometric figures and one bird-like figure were completed by children 3-5 years of age ("N" = 99). The rotation effect, in which the correct response decreased with orientation (45°, 90° 135°, and 180°), was…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Young Children, Perceptual Development, Cognitive Processes
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Wang, Min; Gao, Wei – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2011
We designed two experiments to investigate subsyllabic unit preference in reading Pinyin in Chinese kindergarteners. Pinyin is an alphabetic transcription used in Mainland China to assist children in learning to read Chinese characters. In Pinyin instruction, teachers rely heavily on onset-rime division. Spoken Chinese, however, encourages…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Rhyme, Foreign Countries, Chinese
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Coldren, Jeffrey T.; Colombo, John – Infant and Child Development, 2009
The purpose of this experiment is to test whether shift flexibility in kindergarten children is a joint function of rule-usage and inhibition of attention. Sixty-six children were given either a distraction or facilitation condition in a computerized version of the dimensional change card sort task. In the distraction condition, the background of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Inhibition, Attention