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Hall, James W.; Crown, Irene – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Children
Aaronson, Doris; Ferres, Steven – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Results of a study indicated that adults reading for retention spent more time focusing on syntactic structure, while those reading for immediate comprehension focused more of their time on semantic content. However, the children (fifth graders) used reading strategies that involved mixtures of both of the adult components. (SL)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis
Tyler, Lrraine Komisarjevsky; Marslen-Wilson, William D. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1981
Discusses three experiments investigating the development of word-by-word comprehension in 5-, 7-, and 10-year olds. Subjects monitored for target words in a sentence. Variable included types of monitoring tasks and distribution and context of target words. Results are discussed in terms of the types of comprehension processes various tasks…
Descriptors: Children, Context Clues, Language Processing, Language Research
Huttenlocher, Janellen; Newcombe, Nora – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Reports on 5 experiments investigating the effect of blocking words according to semantic category on ordered recall in adults and young children. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing
