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| Developmental Tasks | 1 |
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| Child Development | 1 |
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| Corrigan, Roberta | 1 |
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Peer reviewedCorrigan, 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
