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Davidson, Denise; Vanegas, Sandra B.; Hilvert, Elizabeth; Rainey, Vanessa R.; Misiunaite, Ieva – Journal of Child Language, 2019
In this study, monolingual (English) and bilingual (English/Spanish, English/Urdu) five- and six-year-old children completed a grammaticality judgment test in order to assess their awareness of the grammaticality of two types of syntactic constructions in English: word order and gender representation. All children were better at detecting…
Descriptors: English, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)
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Mitchell, Peter; Robinson, Elizabeth J. – Journal of Child Language, 1992
Examines five to seven year olds' assumptions about the experiential connotation of "I know that's X." Two experiments compare two groups of children (five and six year olds, six and seven year olds) who were asked to choose between items and asked whether they were sure or whether they knew they had made the right choice. (21 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis, Confidence Testing