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The Effect of Word Order on Young Children's Responses to Simple Questions and Commands
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Wetstone, Harriet S.; Friedlander, Bernard Z. – Child Development, 1973
The study investigated the communicative effectiveness of word order in preschoolers' comprehension of meaning using simple questions and commands in an at-home play context. (ST)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
A Comparison of Motoric and Verbal Responses on a Piagetian Rate-Time Task
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Longobardi, Ellen T.; Wolff, Peter – Child Development, 1973
An experiment demonstrating that children in Piaget's preoperational stage, who generally still cannot give conceptually correct answers to questions about rate and time, evidence an ability to imitate a given rate-time relationship demonstrated by the experimenter. (ST)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Elementary School Students, Imitation