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Peer reviewedCox, M. V.; Richardson, J. Ryder – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Describes a study of children's production of locative prepositions in order to test H. Clark's hypotheses regarding the acquisition of spatial terms. Subjects were required to describe the spatial arrangement of two balls arranged in each of three spatial dimensions. (SED)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedGouze, Karen R.; Nadelman, Lorraine – Child Development, 1980
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Developmental Vocabulary, Perceptual Development
Masonheimer, Patricia E. – 1981
Preschool children's association of the correct name with a clearly identified graphic form during an alphabet naming process is examined in this study. Subjects were 139 children (ages 2, 3, 4, and 5 years) who were asked individually to identify 52 cards, each with a single upper or lower case letter printed on it. Analysis of data was based on…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Discrimination Learning, Error Analysis (Language)
Download full textDenne, Joan M. – 1975
A class of preschoolers, aged 44-63 months and grouped according to age, sex, sibling position, family size and the occupation of each parent, were the subjects of a 2-part study to examine preschoolers' perceptions of mothers. In the first part of the study, each child was shown 4 sets of pictures depicting a variety of possible mother figures.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Child Language, Middle Aged Adults
