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Peer reviewedKersten, Alan W.; Smith, Linda B. – Child Development, 2002
Three experiments investigated whether preschoolers attend to actions or object when learning a novel verb. Findings showed that children learning nouns in the context of novel, moving objects attended exclusively to appearances of objects. Children learning verbs attended equally to appearances and motions. With familiar objects, children…
Descriptors: Attention, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research
Peer reviewedElliott, Lois L.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines whether age-related differences would be observed between young children and adults for discrimination of synthesized, five-format consonant-vowel syllables that differed in voicing onset time of the initial consonants. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli
