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Herold, Debora S.; Nygaard, Lynne C.; Chicos, Kelly A.; Namy, Laura L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
This study examined whether children use prosodic correlates to word meaning when interpreting novel words. For example, do children infer that a word spoken in a deep, slow, loud voice refers to something larger than a word spoken in a high, fast, quiet voice? Participants were 4- and 5-year-olds who viewed picture pairs that varied along a…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Intonation
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Havy, Melanie; Bertoncini, Josiane; Nazzi, Thierry – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Consonants and vowels have been shown to play different relative roles in different processes, including retrieving known words from pseudowords during adulthood or simultaneously learning two phonetically similar pseudowords during infancy or toddlerhood. The current study explores the extent to which French-speaking 3- to 5-year-olds exhibit a…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Vowels, Task Analysis, Vocabulary Development
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Cain, Kate; Towse, Andrea S.; Knight, Rachael S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
Two experiments compared 7- and 8-year-olds' and 9- and 10-year-olds' ability to use semantic analysis and inference from context to understand idioms. We used a multiple-choice task and manipulated whether the idioms were transparent or opaque, familiar or novel, and presented with or without a supportive story context. Performance was compared…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Language Processing, Comparative Analysis
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Seigneuric, Alix; Zagar, Daniel; Meunier, Fanny; Spinelli, Elsa – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
The French language has a grammatical gender system in which all nouns are assigned either a masculine or a feminine gender. Nouns provide two types of gender cues that can potentially guide gender attribution: morphophonological cues carried by endings and semantic cues (natural gender). The first goal of this study was to describe the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cues, Nouns, Language Acquisition
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Graham, Susan A.; Williams, Lisa D.; Huber, Joelene F. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1999
Three experiments investigated the developmental progression of reliance on object function versus object shape to extend novel words among 3- and 5-year olds and adults. Findings indicated that children focused on shape, whereas adults focused on function when extending novel words, suggesting a developmental change in the consideration of these…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
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Bowey, Judith A.; Hirakis, Eliana – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
Although developmental increases in the size of the position effect within a mispronunciation detection task have been interpreted as consistent with a view of the lexical restructuring process as protracted, the position effect itself might not be reliable. The current research examined the effects of position and clarity of acoustic-phonetic…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Phonetics, Pronunciation, Children
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Hall, D. Geoffrey; Moore, Catherine E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Three experiments examined preschoolers' and adults' understanding of distinctive semantic functions of adjectives and count nouns. Found that 4-year olds and adults, but not 3-year olds, who heard the adjective version (e.g., "a blue bird") were more likely than those who heard the count noun version ("a bluebird") to choose…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
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Bowey, Judith A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Contrasts the hypothesis that phonological memory, but not phonological sensitivity, accounts for significant variation in young children's receptive vocabulary. Presents the view that both phonological memory and sensitivity are manifestations of a latent phonological processing ability. Suggests that with age and performance IQ effects…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research, Learning Processes
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DeBaryshe, Barbara D.; Whitehurst, Grover J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Investigates the role of intraverbal learning (a process through which semantic knowledge is acquired from purely linguistic information) in preschool children's acquisition of semantic concepts. Shows that the relative effectiveness of pictorial and intraverbal information depends on the child's age, the type of information supplied, and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Conti, Daniel J.; Camras, Linda A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Investigates the development of awareness of conversational principles in preschool, first-, and third-grade children by presenting them with short stories ending with a verbal statement by a story character. Results suggest that children's understanding of conversational principles improves considerably between preschool and first grade.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Frankel, Daniel G.; Arbel, Tali – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
Developmental changes in the interaction between word order and structural cues were investigated. Hebrew-speaking children between 4 and 10 years old interpreted noun-verb-noun utterances. Both word order and structural cues affected interpretation by all subjects, though the role of structural cues increased with age. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Concept Formation, Cues
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Levorato, M. Chiara; Cacciari, Cristina – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1995
Investigated the developmental processes that lead from a literal interpretation of idiomatic expressions to the ability to comprehend and produce them figuratively. Results showed that younger children are more literally oriented than older children, who in turn are more idiomatically oriented, and that children of both age groups found it more…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Developmental Stages, Elementary School Students