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Horgan, Dianne – Journal of Child Language, 1978
How a child answers questions provides information about how he or she processes input. A child's early responses to questions at age one year, three months, were compared to her responses at one year, seven months, when she was in the two-word stage. (SW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis
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Maas, Fay K.; Abbeduto, Leonard – Journal of Child Language, 1998
A study of 5-year olds' ability to distinguish promises from predictions was suspected to have achieved its results due to methodological problems. A similar study with 32 children ages 5 to 6 that used several variations of the previous study's procedures was found to have similar results, suggesting the earlier findings were an accurate…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
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Cairns, Helen S.; Hsu, Jennifer Ryan – Journal of Child Language, 1978
Based on a study of 50 children between the ages of 3;0 and 5;6, the reasons for the differential difficulty of various forms of "who,""why,""when," and "how" questions are postulated. (EJS)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Difficulty Level
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Corkum, Valerie; Dunham, Philip – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Examines the CDI-WORDS Short Form vocabulary checklist as an index of language production. The study focuses on the associations between this short form and directly observed measures of lexical production; the associations between short-form checklists administered at different ages; the predictive associations between short form scores and…
Descriptors: Age, Associative Learning, Child Language, Intellectual Development