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Holmes, V. M.; Langford, J. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Reports on an experiment in which performance on abstract and concrete sentences was compared in a sentence meaning classification task and in a free recall task. Results show that concrete sentences were classified significantly faster than abstract ones. (CLK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Experimental Psychology

Kessel, Frank S. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1970
This monograph is based on a doctoral thesis submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota in August 1969. (MG)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary School Students

Johnson, Helen L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Investigated preschool children's understanding of temporal relationships in terms of their comprehension of sentences containing clauses linked by "before" and "after". Also evaluated was the relative importance of order of mention and main-subordinate relations strategies in children's interpretation of temporal order information. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Developmental Psychology, Freehand Drawing
Ehmann, Jeanne Stettner – 1976
The cognitive levels of 60 children from grades one, three, and five were compared with their linguistic performance on selected examples of similes and metaphors. Cognitive level was measured using Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices; a new instrument was developed to assess children's linguistic performance. Results indicated a significant…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Developmental Stages, Doctoral Dissertations

Segalowitz, Norman S.; Galang, Rosita G. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
In a study, Tagalog-speaking children, 3-, 5-, and 7-year olds, demonstrated better mastery of patient-focus (passive) than agent-focus (active) sentence structure. These results were attributed to the children's strategy of interpreting the first noun of a sentence to be the agent of the action. (SW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development

Lamberts, Frances; Weener, Paul D. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Menyuk, Paula – 1976
In this paper early and later development of knowledge of syntactic structures and this development in language-disordered children are reviewed. Theories that have been presented to account for syntactic development (cognitive, cognitive-semantic and social-environmental) are discussed. Early developmental data indicate that there is not a…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Bowerman, Melissa – 1977
The acquisition of rules for formulating causative verbs was studied with children over a period of a few years. Most of the data is based on the spontaneous speech of the author's two daughters, from age 2;6 to 6;2 and from age 2;4 to 3;11. It was hypothesized that there are at least two prerequisites for the child's formulation of a general rule…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Bock, J. Kathryn; Hornsby, Mary E. – 1977
The ability of children at different ages to distinguish instructions to "ask" from instructions to "tell" and the types of structures used to express these directives were studied. Subjects were 120 children, aged 2 years 6 months to 6 years 6 months. Children were instructed to either ask or tell an adult or another child to give them puzzle…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills