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Perovic, Alexandra; Vuksanovic, Jasmina; Petrovic, Boban; Avramovic-Ilic, Irena – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014
This study examined the comprehension of actional and psychological verbs in both their active and passive (short and long) forms by 99 Serbian-speaking children. The children, whose age ranged between 3 years, 6 months (3;6) and 7 years, 6 months (7;6), were divided into three groups: 3;6-5 ("M" = 4.3), 5;1-6;1 ("M" = 5.6),…
Descriptors: Serbocroatian, Form Classes (Languages), Young Children, Children
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Gartner, Gloria M.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
Normally hearing children (aged 4--10) and hearing-impaired children (aged 6--14) were tested on word awareness skills, such as the distinction between words and their referents, and their ability to provide explicit definitions of word. Older children performed significantly better than younger children, and normally hearing children performed…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Liu, Hua; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
An auditory technique for studying semantic priming and lexical access, single-word shadowing, was applied in three separate experiments: priming in word pairs; priming in sentence context; and comparison of priming in children aged 7-11 and elderly adults. Results indicate that, because shadowing works across ages and does not require reading, it…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Applied Linguistics, Auditory Stimuli, Children
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Baum, Shari R. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
Two experiments were conducted to explore processing of relative clause structures by normal elderly adults. Four groups of subjects (aged 20-29 years, 60-69 years, 70-79 years, and 80-89 years) participated in a lexical decision task and a sentence repetition task. (19 references) (VWL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Error Analysis (Language), Language Processing
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Weiss, Amy L.; Johnson, Cynthia J. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
School-aged, hearing-impaired children's propensity for incorporating complex syntax into the narratives and conversations they produced was investigated. Language samples containing both conversations and narratives in the form of story retellings were collected from seven subjects with moderate-to-severe hearing losses. (48 references) (VWL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Johnson, Janice – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Examination of factors underlying cross-language transfer in metaphor interpretation among bilingual (Spanish-English) 7- to 12-year-olds indicated that metaphor interpretation ability was higher in the older subjects. The level of metaphor interpretation was most strongly related to cognitive-developmental variables that were interdependent…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Child Language, Children