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Omanson, Richard C., And Others – 1978
The relationship between retention of story propositions and inferences was studied in two experiments on groups of children who averaged five and eight years in age. In the first experiment, the motives and theme of protagonists were varied and found to affect the number and kind of inferences made by eight-year-olds. The increase in the number…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Educational Research
Download full textStein, Nancy L.; Glenn, Christine G. – 1975
This study investigated the development of story recall in elementary school children through development of a model of story comprehension which specified both the rules for informational transformations and elaborations and the nature of the organizational structure of stories. Using Rumelhart's (1974) schema for analyzing stories in terms of a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1
Paris, Scott G.; Upton, Laurence R. – 1974
The role of inference in children's comprehension and memory is the subject of this research report. An underlying proposition is that in order for a child to effectively understand and remember linguistic or nonlinguistic information, he must actively embellish the given stimulus material with his own implicit knowledge. In the experiment…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Klein, Pnina S.; And Others – 1974
This study investigated the specific learning abilities and general adjustment of 50 children, 5-14 years of age, who had pyloric stenosis (PS) in infancy, compared to 44 siblings and 50 matched control children. PS involves a period of brief starvation in early infancy, unrelated to socioeconomic conditions and is surgically correctable. The…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Behavior Problems, Body Weight, Children
Menyuk, Paula – 1976
In this paper early and later development of knowledge of syntactic structures and this development in language-disordered children are reviewed. Theories that have been presented to account for syntactic development (cognitive, cognitive-semantic and social-environmental) are discussed. Early developmental data indicate that there is not a…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Blaubergs, Maija S. – 1977
That semantics interacts with syntax has been shown in psycholinguistic investigations of the processing of language by adults and of the acquisition of language by children. The few programs for language assessment and therapy that have attempted to incorporate semantic considerations have included some misunderstandings of the psycholinguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Diagnostic Tests, Grammar
