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Winner, Ellen; And Others – 1978
Two tasks were used to choose between two rival accounts--cognitive vs. pragmatic--of children's failure to comprehend metaphors. A total of 120 children, in three age groups (6, 7, and 9 years) were given either an explication or a multiple choice task to assess comprehension of 15 novel comparisons expressed in five alternative forms varying in…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development

Corrigan, Roberta – Child Development, 1975
Nine tasks were designed to test the developmental sequence of three types of "because" (affective, physical, concrete logical) in 100 children aged 3 to 7 years. The tasks tested whether comprehension of "because" preceded its usage and at what point children understood that sentences with reversed clauses were incorrect.…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Developmental Tasks, Intellectual Development, Linguistic Competence
Frederiksen, Carl H. – 1973
This research studied the processes which enable people to acquire semantic information from natural-language discourse. Specific objectives were: (1) to represent semantically the structural meaning of English discourse by a well-defined semantic model; (2) to develop a way of using the semantic representation of a text as a structural model for…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, English, Intellectual Development

Townsend, David J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Preschool children were tested on their comprehension of the comparatives, "taller,""shorter,""more," and "less" in five types of sentences. Results suggest that many children can understand two-dimensional comparisons, but perform poorly on second-clause subjects pronoun sentences because of uncertainty about the referent of the pronoun. (SDH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition

deVilliers, Peter A.; deVilliers, Jill G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Investigates the development and production of spatial deictic terms ("this/that", "here/there", "my/your") in the context of a hide-and-seek game using preschool children and college age adults. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
Mackay, Ronald – RELC Journal, 1974
This article discusses features of spoken and written language which are seldom systematically taught, and outlines a methodology for the teaching of reading comprehension. (AM)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Intellectual Development, Interpretive Reading

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
Estes, W. K., Ed. – 1978
This book concludes a six-volume review of research and theory on learning and cognition. Its six chapters cover the following topics: theories of semantic memory, comprehension and memory of text, coding processes in memory, perceptual learning from reading, speech perception, and the organization and core concepts of learning theory and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Research
Fremgen, Amy; Fay, David – 1977
Sixteen children (aged 14 to 26 months), who were reported by their parents to overextend, were tested for overextension in both language production and comprehension. The children were first asked to name each of a series of pictures of inappropriate exemplars of the words they were reported to overextend. Those words that were overextended, a…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development

Fowles, Barbara; Glanz, Marcia E. – Journal of Child Language, 1977
Children in grades 1-3 were asked to retell and explain a series of riddles. Ability to recall riddles was not predictive of ability to explain them. Three cognitive factors seemed to determine level of riddle competence. Implications concern the relationship of riddle competence to reading ability and metalinguistic facility. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
Bushnell, Emily W. – 1977
In order to investigate the development of word-formation abilities, 3-, 5-, and 7-year-olds were asked to act out with toys, judge, and make up sentences containing instances of class extension. Some sample sentences are "Can you upside-down the clown?" and "Broom the spoon." Children dealt with such sentences in much the same…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Comprehension, Generative Grammar
Wheeler, Valerie – 1979
Research evidence currently indicates that young children's communication skills for both the speaker and the listener roles are often ineffective. The accuracy of children's communication improves gradually over the elementary school years. Current thinking in the area of metacognition may be very useful in understanding the development of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Comprehension
Fabian, Veronica – 1977
Three empirical studies were conducted to investigate the hypothesis that the "easy to see" construction (such as in the sentence "children are hard to understand") is acquired at a younger age than the 7-9 year range reported by previous studies (Cambon and Sinclair, 1974; Chomsky, 1969; 1972; Cromer, 1970; Kessel, 1970).…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Grammar
Sternberg, 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
Swain, Merrill; And Others – 1974
Elicited imitation occurs in an experimental situation during which subjects are requested to repeat a model sentence constructed so as to include specific desired grammatical structures. Elicited translation involves giving subjects a sentence in one language, and asking them to say the same thing, but in another language; elicited translation…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, Data Collection, Imitation
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