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Peer reviewedWiig, Elisabeth A.; Semel, Eleanor M. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1974
Findings suggest that spatial relationships are established earlier in a developmental sequence than temporal relationships. (RB)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedPrawat, Richard S.; Hanes, Bailey F. – Child Study Journal, 1978
Descriptors: Age, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Conservation (Concept)
Hopper, Robert; Tilghman, Peter P. – 1979
Three studies tested the ability of children of different ages to comprehend spoken sentences while viewing pictures that differed from the sentences according to some plausible combinations of actor, action, and beneficiary. In the first two studies, involving a total of 140 subjects, nine contextual conditions were used, including sentence only,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Cues, Early Childhood Education
Kennedy, Graeme Donald – 1970
A conceptual category approach to the study of the comprehension of natural language is presented as an alternative to previous approaches made solely in terms of information gain or specific linguistic variables. Elementary school children between the ages of 6 and 11 years were given a referent identification task to test their comprehension of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Concept Formation
