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Mendoza, Manuel; Beltran-Navarro, Beatriz; Matute, Esmeralda; Rosselli, Monica – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to determine the effects of age, sex, and maternal education of monolingual Spanish-speaking preschoolers on both macrostructural (oral narrative quality) and microstructural measures (number of different words, communication units, mean length of utterance in both words and morphemes, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Gender Differences, Parent Background, Mothers
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Schlosser, Ralf W.; Shane, Howard; Sorce, James; Koul, Rajinder; Bloomfield, Emma; Debrowski, Lisa; DeLuca, Tim; Miller, Stephanie; Schneider, Danielle; Neff, Allison – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012
Purpose: The effects of animation on transparency, name agreement, and identification of graphic symbols for verbs and prepositions were evaluated in preschoolers of 3 age groups. Methods: A mixed-group design was used; in each age group, half of the children were randomly allocated to 1 of 2 orders of symbol formats. The 52 children were asked to…
Descriptors: Identification, Animation, Comparative Analysis, Verbs
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Berman, Jared M. J.; Chambers, Craig G.; Graham, Susan A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
An eye tracking methodology was used to evaluate 3- and 4-year-old children's sensitivity to speaker affect when resolving referential ambiguity. Children were presented with pictures of three objects on a screen (including two referents of the same kind, e.g., an intact doll and a broken doll, and one distracter item), paired with a prerecorded…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language, Human Body