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Jaime Inocencio Chi Pech – First Language, 2024
This article uses cognitive measures previously developed within linguistic relativity research to explore the thinking patterns of Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children in the Yucatan peninsula. These measures were designed to detect cognitive patterns associated with specific language patterns. Here, these measures are used to test whether 12…
Descriptors: Spanish, American Indian Languages, American Indians, Bilingualism
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Fein, Greta G.; Eshleman, Suzann – Developmental Psychology, 1974
Uses the transposition paradigm to compare the influence of the adjectives "same" and "different" on the test choice of 5- and 9-year-old children. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference
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Hutson, Barbara A.; Shub, Jeanne – Child Development, 1975
This study examined the factors influencing the choice of the conjunctions "and" or "but" in joining two clauses of a compound sentence. Subjects were students at first-, fourth-, seventh-, and tenth-grade and adult levels. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Development, Conjunctions, Elementary School Students
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Kelly, Melissa F.; Miller, Kevin F.; Fang, Ge; Feng, Gary – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1999
Explored the effects of differences between English-language and Chinese numerical systems for naming months and days on calendar calculations. Chinese and U.S. 8- and 10-year olds and undergraduates were asked to name a date coming before or after another given date. Found that Chinese speakers used calculations; English speakers recited names.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences