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Brooks, Patricia J.; Braine, Martin D. S. – Cognition, 1996
Four- to 10-year olds viewed pictures in which all or some individuals pictured were doing something to all or some objects pictured. Children indicated which sentences, using "all" or "each" to modify the subject or object, applied to the pictures. In choosing the applicable sentence, children showed little difficulty with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition

Swingley, Daniel; Pinto, John P.; Fernald, Anne – Cognition, 1999
Three experiments used a visual fixation technique to examine whether toddlers interpret speech continuously. Found that 24-month-olds had delayed responses when a competing distractor picture's label overlapped phonetically with the target at onset, but not when the pictures' labels rhymed, showing that children monitored speech stream…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes