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Download full textSternberg, Robert J. – 1978
A total of 224 subjects participated in a study to determine how children and adults comprehend logical connectives. Specifically, the study examined the effects of age, content, and practice on the encoding and combination of logical relationships expressed by six types of logical connectives: conjunction, disjunction, conditionality,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Keenan, Elinor Ochs; And Others – 1976
Two major strategies for linguistically encoding an idea or proposition are suggested. The first strategy involves encoding an idea in the space of a single utterance, while the second strategy conveys the proposition through a sequence of two or more utterances. The tendency has been to focus on discourse as a composite of sentences (the first…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis
Bowerman, Melissa – 1974
This is a study of the kinds of processes involved in learning the meaning of individual lexical items, and in particular how the acquisition of lexical meaning is related to the cognitive structuring of events on the one hand and the ability to produce syntactic paraphrases of a word's meaning and other related constructions on the other. It is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Componential Analysis, Deep Structure
Wilson, Robert D. – 1971
This paper describes a reading program researched, designed, and developed by Consultants in Total Education for primary students whose mother tongue is other than English. The program includes teaching strategies that trigger universal learning strategies. The program is divided into four general stages, each stage containing particular…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language), Grammar
Ravem, Roar – 1970
It is possible to examine the development of English wh-questions in first and second language learners and to detect regularities in the order of emergence of certain linguistic structures. It is also possible to speculate whether the stages in language acquisition correspond to the transformational derivation in transformational grammar. The…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure
Spence, Carol M. – 1971
Some insight into the relationship between language and thought can be achieved through a comparison between American Sign Language and English. This paper discusses several studies on this topic and defines some of the problems. The author feels that the deaf using American Sign Language cannot be considered linguistically deficient. A structural…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cognitive Processes, Deafness, Dialects
