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Sobel, David M.; Corriveau, Kathleen H. – Child Development, 2010
Two experiments examined preschoolers' ability to learn novel words using others' expertise about objects' nonobvious properties. In Experiment 1, 4-year-olds (n = 24) endorsed individuals' labels for objects based on their differing causal knowledge about those objects. Experiment 2 examined the robustness of this inference and its development.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Evaluation Methods, Language Acquisition, Word Recognition
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Finley, Gordon E.; Frenkel, Oded J. – Child Development, 1972
Study demonstrates that children, like adults, do have lower tachistoscopic recognition thresholds for good than for bad words. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Grade 4, Grade 7, Recall (Psychology)
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Rosinski, Richard R.; And Others – Child Development, 1975
Presents two experiments which measured latencies in a picture-word interference task to assess semantic processing. Results suggest that picture-word interference is partly semantically based and that children and adults experience an equivalent amount of semantic interference. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Elementary School Students, Pictorial Stimuli
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Baron-Cohen, Simon; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Two studies of toddlers and children with autism, mentally handicapped children, and normal toddlers examined whether autistic toddlers used Speaker's Direction of Gaze (SDG) strategy or less powerful Listener's Direction of Gaze (LDG) strategy to learn a word for a novel object. Results suggest autistic toddlers are insensitive to speaker's gaze…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Language Processing