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Kandemirci, Birsu; Theakston, Anna; Boeg Thomsen, Ditte; Brandt, Silke – Child Development, 2023
This study investigates the impact of evidentiality on source monitoring and the impact of source monitoring on false belief understanding (FBU), while controlling for short-term memory, age, gender, and receptive vocabulary. One hundred (50 girls) monolingual 3- and 4-year-olds from Turkey and the UK participated in the study in 2019. In Turkish,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Turkish, English, Beliefs
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Miller, Hilary E.; Andrews, Chelsea A.; Simmering, Vanessa R. – Child Development, 2020
This study took a novel approach to understanding the role of language in spatial development by combining approaches from spatial language and gesture research. It analyzed forty-three 4.5- to 6-year-old's speech and gesture production during explanations of reasoning behind performance on Spatial Analogies and Children's Mental Transformation…
Descriptors: Language Role, Language Acquisition, Spatial Ability, Child Development
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Clegg, Jennifer M.; Legare, Cristine H. – Child Development, 2016
Four tasks (N = 191, 3- to 6-year-olds) examined the effect of instrumental versus conventional language cues on children's imitative fidelity of a necklace-making activity, their memory and transmission of the activity, and their perceptions of functional fixedness. Children in the conventional condition imitated with higher fidelity, transmitted…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cues, Task Analysis, Imitation
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Pulverman, Rachel; Song, Lulu; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Pruden, Shannon M.; Golinkoff, Roberta M. – Child Development, 2013
In the world, the manners and paths of motion events take place together, but in language, these features are expressed separately. How do infants learn to process motion events in linguistically appropriate ways? Forty-six English-learning 7- to 9-month-olds were habituated to a motion event in which a character performed both a manner and a…
Descriptors: English, Language Acquisition, Infants, Cognitive Processes
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Rose, Susan A.; Feldman, Judith F.; Jankowski, Jeffery J. – Child Development, 2009
A controversial issue in the field of language development is whether language emergence and growth is dependent solely on processes specifically tied to language or could also depend on basic cognitive processes that affect all aspects of cognitive competence (domain-general processes). The present article examines this issue using a large…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Infants, Memory, Language Acquisition
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Pelucchi, Bruna; Hay, Jessica F.; Saffran, Jenny R. – Child Development, 2009
Numerous studies over the past decade support the claim that infants are equipped with powerful statistical language learning mechanisms. The primary evidence for statistical language learning in word segmentation comes from studies using artificial languages, continuous streams of synthesized syllables that are highly simplified relative to real…
Descriptors: Cues, Infants, Probability, Language Acquisition
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Fennell, Christopher T.; Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Werker, Janet F. – Child Development, 2007
Despite the prevalence of bilingualism, language acquisition research has focused on monolingual infants. Monolinguals cannot learn minimally different words (e.g., "bih" and "dih") in a laboratory task until 17 months of age ( J. F. Werker, C. T. Fennell, K. M. Corcoran, & C. L. Stager, 2002). This study was extended to 14- to 20-month-old…
Descriptors: Infants, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
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Zachry, William – Child Development, 1978
Examined the relation of language to thought in a cross-sectional study of 24 infants between 12 and 24 months of age. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Fundamental Concepts, Infants, Intelligence
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Macnamara, John; And Others – Child Development, 1976
This study examined the ability of 4-year-old children to understand the propositional components (presuppositions and assertions) of semantically complex propositions and to deduce what such components together imply. (BRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Logical Thinking, Preschool Children
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Taylor, Marjorie; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 1989
Results of four experiments suggest that two-year-olds may be capable of forming inclusion relations when they hear a novel word for an object that already has a familiar name. (PCB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
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Nelson, Deborah G. Kemler; Russell, Rachel; Duke, Nell; Jones, Kate – Child Development, 2000
Three studies examined lexical categorization in 2-year- olds. Findings indicated that even with minimal opportunities to familiarize themselves with novel artifacts, children generalized their names in accordance with the objects' functions, even when they had to discover the functions on their own or when all the test objects had some…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Generalization
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Heidenheimer, Patricia – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition
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Kuczaj, Stan J. II – Child Development, 1979
Tests the hypothesis that children are predisposed to learn suffixes rather than prefixes. Results of four experiments generally support the hypothesis. Importance of language learning strategies and influences of child's experience on strategy use are discussed. (JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Experience, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Coley, John D.; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 1989
Investigated the interpretation of the word "big" by 40 children of 3 to 5 years. The type and orientation of objects used in the study were varied. Results demonstrated that contextual factors influenced children's responses. (RJC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
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Morgan, James L.; Saffran, Jenny R. – Child Development, 1995
Five studies examined the contributions of syllable-ordering and rhythmic properties of syllable strings to 6- and 9-month-old infants' speech segmentation. Results indicate that the capacity for integrating multiple sources of information in speech perception emerges between 6 and 9 months, in rough synchrony with the emergence of integration in…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Development
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