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Bartlett, Elsa Jaffe – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Investigates extent to which certain co-referential and structural constraints are reflected in the anaphoric noun phrases of written narratives of elementary school writers. Results indicate that poor writers are relatively insensitive to the constraints of the more difficult co-referential context, but that they (poor writers) are as sensitive…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Students
Huttenlocher, Janellen; Lui, Felicia – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Reports on experiments examining the semantic organization of concrete nouns and verbs and its development in childhood. Differences in semantic organization are said to be a clue to age-related changes in performance with verbs. (AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Language Acquisition
Cole, Ronald A.; Perfetti, Charles A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
The early and continued use of semantic, syntactic and contextual clues in recognizing mispronounced words was demonstrated in an experiment involving preschoolers, grade school students and college students. Errors in highly predictable words and contexts were most easily recognized by all regardless of reading ability. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Ability
Waters, Harriet Salatas – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Descriptive grammars based on sets of rewrite rules were constructed to summarize the structure and organization of 120 entries in a second grade student's journal of class news. These rules illuminated the relationship between experience, abstraction, and generation of structure, and the use of structure to express complex thoughts. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Child Language, Descriptive Linguistics, Elementary Education, Expository Writing
