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Hughes, S. Eileen Dolores; Walsh, John F. – Child Development, 1971
Syntactical mediation refers to the phenomenson in which the grammatical structure of language can be employed in the structure of verbal mediators. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Females, Mediation Theory
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Alegria, Jesus; Pignot, Elisabeth – Child Development, 1979
Experiment 1 showed that four-year-old children memorized a list of non-rhyming items better than a list of rhyming ones. In Experiment 2, bilingual children learned a list of items which had rhyming names in one language and non-rhyming names in the other. Results showed better performance on the non-rhyming items. (JMB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Mediation Theory