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Peer reviewedYalisove, Daniel – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Investigates the development sequence of children's comprehension of riddles. In Study I riddles and jokes were collected and classified from children of grades 1 through 10. In Study II, students of grades 1, 3, 6, 10, and college were given selected riddles from three categories determined in Study I to test the predicted comprehension sequence.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comprehension, Developmental Stages
Backman, Jarl – 1978
Swedes in four different age groups (9, 12, 15 and 18 years) judged written words which varied in three dimensions: syntactic category, objective frequency, and polysemy (multiple meaning). The subjects judged ease of comprehension of 24 words in a factorial arrangement. The method used was Thurstone's paired comparisons. A predicted complex…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comprehension, Error Analysis (Language)
Bard, Therese Bissen – 1978
Two hundred Honolulu-area students from the fourth, fifth, eighth, and ninth grades participated in a study that examined the variables effects of five selected factors (developmental level, sex, reading ability, adult intervention, and variation in film content/form) on the ability of two age groups (nine and ten year old children and thirteen…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Comprehension
