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Peer reviewedHamayan, Else; And Others – Language and Speech, 1977
Finds developmental differences in the abilities of eight-year-old, eleven-year-old, and adult second language learners to repeat certain grammatical sentence structures. (RL)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedFeldman, Carol F. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Memory
Peer reviewedAbbeduto, Leonard – Language and Speech, 1985
The role of syntactic/semantic structure in the motor programing of speech by five-year-olds, eight-year-olds, and adults was investigated. Repetition durations were found to be shorter for simple than for complex sentences at all ages. However, linguistic complexity affected durational variability only for adults. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedMost, Tova; Amir, Ofer; Tobin, Yishai – Language and Speech, 2000
Identified the acoustic features of the vowels produced by Hebrew speakers differing in age and sex. Ninety speakers were recorded. Vowels were presented in a nonword context that was placed in a meaningful Hebrew sentence. Results are discussed. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Foreign Countries
