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The Acquisition of Direct and Indirect Objects in Japanese
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McNeill, David; And Others – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Comprehension, Japanese, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence
A Scalogram Analysis of the Development of the Use and Comprehension of "Because" in Children
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Corrigan, Roberta – Child Development, 1975
Nine tasks were designed to test the developmental sequence of three types of "because" (affective, physical, concrete logical) in 100 children aged 3 to 7 years. The tasks tested whether comprehension of "because" preceded its usage and at what point children understood that sentences with reversed clauses were incorrect.…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Developmental Tasks, Intellectual Development, Linguistic Competence
Children's Awareness of Semantic Constraints in Sentences
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James, Sharon L.; Miller, Jon F. – Child Development, 1973
Analysis indicates that both 5 and 7-year-old children are capable of distinguishing between anomalous and meaningful sentences although 7-year-olds demonstrate greater awareness of selection restriction rules. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Context Clues, Data Analysis
Children's Comprehension of Relativized English Sentences
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Brown, H, Douglas – Child Development, 1971
Results imply that in early childhood education the language of test instructions and reading programs could be better geared to the child's linguistic competence. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Data Analysis, Language Acquisition
The Experimental Facilitation of Children's Comprehension and Production of Four Syntactic Structures
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Elardo, Richard – Child Development, 1971
Study offers some evidence which bears on the amount of influence of the environment upon linguistic capacity. (Author)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Environmental Influences, Grammar, Language Acquisition
The Development of Speech Act Comprehension in Mentally Retarded Individuals and Nonretarded Children.
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Abbeduto, Leonard; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Studied the development of speech act comprehension in 36 retarded and 36 nonretarded children at the developmental ages of five, seven, and nine years. Retarded and nonretarded individuals followed the answer obviousness rule and used the contextual and linguistic clues available to respond to yes-no interrogative sentences. (RJC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition