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Peer reviewedDalgleish, B. W. J.; Enkelmann, Susan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
Presents the results of a study in which reading-retarded children aged 8-to-12, whom previous research had shown to be deficient in their knowledge of pronomial reference rules, received oral presentations containing three kinds of adjective complements. The performance of the test group relative to a control is discussed. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Comprehension, Control Groups, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedFrank, Robert – Cognition, 1998
Demonstrates that an understanding of children's language-acquisition difficulties with a wide range of syntactic constructions should be derived from limitations on the child's ability to deal with processing load and formal representational complexity. Maintains this can be done only in the context of a view of syntactic representation…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Grammar, Individual Development
Iwasaki, Noriko; Vigliocco, Gabriella; Garrett, Merrill F. – 1997
This study analyzed the grammatical features of two classes of words in Japanese, adjectives and adjectival nouns. Both have functions similar to those of English adjectives, but their behaviors differ syntactically or morphologically from each other. Differences in psychological processes, evident in both lexical retrieval processes and native…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Comparative Analysis, Error Patterns, Grammar
Foorman, Barbara R.; And Others – 1980
One hundred and twenty kindergarten and second grade children from three different language environments were given a perceptual matching test and a verbal communication test to examine the relationship between language and cognitive performance. The object of the study was to focus on the cognitive processing demands imposed by the linguistic…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Children, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies
Foorman, Barbara R.; And Others – 1981
One hundred and twenty kindergarten and second grade children from 3 different language environments (40 Mexican Spanish-speaking children from Monterrey, Mexico, and 40 Chicano Spanish-speaking children and 40 English-speaking children from the same public elementary school in Houston, Texas) were given a perceptual matching test and a verbal…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Interrelationships
Download full textFisiak, Jacek, Ed. – 1986
A collection of papers on contrastive linguistics includes: "Prototypes and Equivalence" (Tomasz P. Krzeszowski); "Comparing the Incomparable? English Adjectives in "-able" and Their Rendering in Modern Chinese" (Arthur Mettinger); "Classification and Distribution of Lexical Errors in the Written Work of German Learners of English" (Rudiger…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Bilingualism, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics
