Descriptor
Source
Author
Chen, Margaret | 1 |
Kroot, Nancy Egel | 1 |
Publication Type
Dissertations/Theses | 2 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
An Analysis of the Responses of Four-, Six-, and Eight-Year-Old Children to Four Kinds of Questions.
Kroot, Nancy Egel – 1976
This study investigated the quantitative and qualitative differences in the responses of children aged four, six, and eight to four kinds of questions; cognitive memory, convergent, divergent, and evaluative. The subjects, 48 boys and girls, were from advantaged homes and had attended, or were attending, nursery school. Each subject was shown a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Chen, Margaret – 1979
This paper investigates the development of negative Wh-questions in a four year old subject acquiring English as her L1. Spontaneous and elicited speech samples were collected over a period of 6 months. During the course of the study, the subject began to invert subject and auxiliary, and by the end of the study she was inverting correctly in 38%…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes