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Matsui, Tomoko; Fitneva, Stanka A. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2009
Evidentials are grammatical elements such as affixes and particles indicating the source of knowledge. We provide an overview of this grammatical category and consider three research domains to which developmental studies on evidentiality contribute: the acquisition of linguistic means to characterize knowledge, the conceptual understanding of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Grammar, Morphemes, Language Research
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Osherson, Daniel N. – Cognition, 1978
Human infants are predisposed to organize their experience in terms of certain concepts (natural) and not others (unnatural). Three formal, necessary conditions on the naturalness of concepts are offered. The conditions attempt to link the problem of naturalness to principled distinctions between sense vs nonsense, simplicity vs complexity, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Fundamental Concepts
Cummins, James – 1973
This paper attempts to specify the ways in which bilingualism might affect cognitive functioning. Two general ways, the "linguistic" and the "non-linguistic," are distinguished. Linguistic explanations explain the effects of bilingualism on cognition as a direct result of the fact that the bilingual has access to two verbal…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Adams, Alison K. – 1986
Two studies of concept development and categorization among 1-, 2-, and 3-year-old children suggest that concept formation is a socially guided process involving convergence on an adult model. Convergence in labeling is an early strategy for shaping children's category boundaries, while later, more elaborate linguistic means are used to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Development
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French, Patrice – 1975
Factor analysis accounts for most of the variance in adult ratings of concepts with adjectives. Affective reactions are present in young infants, but still to be explored is how the stable adult factor structure develops from these reactions. Three questions are investigated in this study: (1) is this factor structure present in 3- and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Age, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Riegel, Klaus F. – 1972
The processes by which the young child recognizes and regenerates some invariant and organizational properties of language are discussed. In these processes the child conjoins and contrasts recurrent segments--perhaps a recurrent word--of the messages presented to him. After repeated exposure to messages containing a common segment, the child…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Cook, Nancy – 1976
Focusing on the acquisition of semantic features and the relation between semantic and perceptual features, this study further tests the "semantic feature hypothesis," where a child acquires full adult word meaning component by component, and its complementary "correlation hypothesis," which claims that the source of these semantic features lies…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Robb, Martha; Lord, Catherine – 1981
The range of meanings of "big" and "little" that mothers and their three children under age two expressed in relatively natural communication situations was studied. Longitudinal data from transcripts of conversations of middle-class mothers and their children were analyzed along with diary records kept by parents of their children's use of size…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjectives, Child Language, Cognitive Development