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Download full textBaker, Eva L.; Lindheim, Elaine L. – 1988
This document presents a study of natural language understanding of computer programs. In the study, the performance of IRUS, a natural language query system designed to interface with a database, was compared with the performance of preschool and early elementary school children in answering questions about a specific database. Questions used in…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedShore, Cecilia; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Combinatorial abilities in language and elicited symbolic play were compared in a longitudinal study of 30 children at 20 and 28 months. In addition, multivariate analyses were used to assess the stability of individual differences. Generally, different symbolic play variables contributed unique explained variance to different language variables.…
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedGoswami, Usha – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Compares the ability of children at three different levels to use analogy in reading both real and nonsense words. Shows young children can successfully use analogy to decode new words. (HOD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Language Patterns
Peer reviewedLindgren, Scott D.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Findings suggest that (1) dyslexia is more prevalent in the United States than in Italy, (2) reading disabilities are strongly associated with disorders of verbal processing in both countries (although some American dyslexics also show visual-motor deficits), and (3) there is a greater dissociation between reading comprehension and decoding in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia, Elementary Education
Evans, Adeline L.; King, Thomas R. – 1981
A study investigated the speaking styles of black college students to determine whether selected stylistic features of speeches of students at a predominantly black university were different from those of black college students at a predominantly white university. Audiotapes were made of 25 students at the predominantly black university and 21…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, College Students, Communication Research
Peer reviewedAkiyama, Michael M. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Tests the universality hypothesis of language acquisition by asking young monolingual English and Japanese children to verify true affirmatives, false affirmatives, false negatives, and true negatives. The hypothesis was not supported in the case of Japanese-speaking children. A theory of cross-linguistic language acquisition is proposed.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Acquisition
Kim, Byong Won – 1982
An analysis of Korean language textbooks currently used by Korean children and of nationally-administered reading comprehension test items for high school graduates reveals a text-oriented reading comprehension approach in South Korea. Text orientation--seeing individual words, phrases, and sentences as semantically unified into a meaningful…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
