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Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky; Adams, Marilyn Jager – Child Development, 1973
Semantic and cognitive factors governing passive-voice comprehension were studied in kindergarten, first-, and second-grade children. (ST)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics
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Lockl, Kathrin; Schneider, Wolfgang – Child Development, 2007
This longitudinal study combined, in a single study, different aspects of children's knowledge about mental phenomena and thus could investigate relations among the development of language, theory of mind, and later metamemory. In total, 183 German children were tested at ages 3, 4, and 5. Each time of testing included a set of theory-of-mind…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
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Kuczaj, Stan A., II; Maratsos, Michael P. – Child Development, 1974
The concepts of front, back, and side may be easily understood in relation to an intrinsically fronted item, but with a nonfronted object they depend on situational or psychological cues. A study investigated a child's awareness of the front, back, and side of his own body and of fronted and nonfronted objects. Researchers hypothesized that a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension