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Henderson, Lisa; Weighall, Anna; Brown, Helen; Gaskell, Gareth – Child Development, 2013
Lexical competition that occurs as speech unfolds is a hallmark of adult oral language comprehension crucial to rapid incremental speech processing. This study used pause detection to examine whether lexical competition operates similarly at 7-8 years and tested variables that influence "online" lexical activity in adults. Children…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Word Recognition, Language Acquisition

Samuels, S. Jay – Child Development, 1970
Descriptors: Adults, Associative Learning, Comparative Analysis, Grade 4

Guttentag, Robert E.; Haith, Marshall M. – Child Development, 1979
Second-grade children, third-grade children, and adults judged whether pictures were members of a positive or negative memory set while trying to ignore irrelevant words printed inside the pictures. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adults, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education

Fernald, Anne; Swingley, Daniel; Pinto, John P. – Child Development, 2001
Two experiments tracked infants' eye movements to examine use of word-initial information to understand fluent speech. Results indicated that 21- and 18-month-olds recognized partial words as quickly and reliably as whole words. Infants' productive vocabulary and reaction time were related to word recognition accuracy. Results show that…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Eye Movements