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Peer reviewedBerk, Laura E.; Garvin, Ruth A. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Examines theoretical issues concerning the development of and the unity or diversity underlying private speech and studies the developmental progression of private speech in a low-income, culturally different sample. The effects of age, sex, environmental context, and the relationship of social speech to varieties of private speech are also…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Context Effect
Download full textHickmann, Maya; And Others – 1989
A study examined the development of discourse cohesion in first language acquisition within a functional and cross-linguistic perspective. The analyses focused on how children introduce new referents in discourse across four languages: English, French, German, and Mandarin Chinese. The data base consists of narratives produced by children between…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Coherence
