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Comprehension of Questions by Children between 5 and 9

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Stewart, Jean; Sinclair, Hermine – Linguistics, 1975

This study examined the comprehension of Wh-questions in English in children between the ages of 5 and 9. The study showed that difficulties with Wh-questions are not overcome by the age of 9. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Intellectual Development

Dialect Usage as a Factor in Developmental Language Performance of Primary Grade School Children.

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Levine, Madlyn A.; Hanes, Michael L. – 1976

This study investigated the relationship between dialect usage and performance on four language tasks designed to reflect features developmental in nature: articulation, grammatical closure, auditory discrimination, and sentence comprehension. Predictor and criterion language tasks were administered to 90 kindergarten, first-, and second-grade…

Descriptors: Blacks, Comprehension, Dialect Studies, Elementary Education