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Peer reviewedNelson, Keith E.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Sessions of verbal interaction (N=22) significantly facilitated syntax acquisition by 32- to 40-month-olds. In response to children's sentences, experimenters replied with recast sentences that maintained the same meaning but provided new syntactic information. A selective bias in these replies was matched by selectively stronger facilitation in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Imitation, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedMorgan, 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
Peer reviewedHutson, Barbara A.; Shub, Jeanne – Child Development, 1975
This study examined the factors influencing the choice of the conjunctions "and" or "but" in joining two clauses of a compound sentence. Subjects were students at first-, fourth-, seventh-, and tenth-grade and adult levels. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Development, Conjunctions, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedBigler, Rebecca S. – Child Development, 1995
Investigated the effect of using gender as a functional category in elementary school students' gender stereotyping. Results support the idea that the functional use of gender categories leads to increases in gender stereotyping, particularly among those children with less-advanced classification skills. Advanced classification skills proved to…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Classification, Cognitive Development
