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Akiyama, M. Michael; Guillory, Andrea W. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1983
Young children found it difficult to verify negative statements, but found affirmative statements, affirmative questions, and negative questions equally easy to deal with. It is proposed that children acquire the answering system earlier than the verification system, and use answering to verify statements before acquiring the verification system.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research
