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Peer reviewedMenyuk, Paula – Child Development, 1968
The effect of grammatical phonological rules (those in English) and nongrammatical (those in other languages) on the learning and reproduction of morpheme-length utterances and the role of maturation on this effect were examined. Children preschool through second grade were the subjects. There were no significant differences at any grade level…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Child Language, English
Walen, Susan R. – J Verb Learning Verb Behav, 1970
The learning and retention performances of children and adults were compared on free and serialized reproductions of meaningful words. Although the children took longer than the adults to reach the learning criterion, and short-term retention was equivalent for both groups, the children displayed a superior serial recall at 7-day retention.…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, Child Language, Experimental Groups
