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Peer reviewedBlake, Joanna; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1994
Preschool children were given a memory task that required repeating a list of animal names and a sentence imitation task. Results confirmed a relationship between word span and language imitation in younger preschool children and the notion of a memory constraint on early spontaneous language. Increasing mastery of linguistic rules appeared to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Language Aptitude
