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Why do Japanese Write Characters in Space?
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Sasaki, Masato – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1987
Reviews several experiments which examined the cognitive function of finger writing, an activity widely used by Japanese people and thought to be related to Kanji learning. Children and university students performed either Kanji anagram tasks or English word tasks. Finger writing appears to originate from the existence of motoric or action-based…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Cross Cultural Studies
The Relationship between Memory Span and Measures of Imitative and Spontaneous Language Complexity in Preschool Children.
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Blake, Joanna; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1994
Preschool children were given a memory task that required repeating a list of animal names and a sentence imitation task. Results confirmed a relationship between word span and language imitation in younger preschool children and the notion of a memory constraint on early spontaneous language. Increasing mastery of linguistic rules appeared to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Language Aptitude