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Peer reviewedPea, Roy D. – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Investigates in an experimental setting the claim that young children have some knowledge of the rules of correspondence between language and reality which are central to propositional logic. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Peer reviewedScholnick, Ellin K.; Wing, Clara S. – Journal of Child Language, 1983
The relationship between knowledge and reasoning was explored through 12 males' and 12 females' (aged 12, 15, and adult) solutions to written syllogisms containing four conjunctions, and evaluations of single sentences for their pragmatic content. The relationship between comprehension of pragmatic uncertainty and detection of uncertain…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Child Language
