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Peer reviewedCox, Maureen V.; Isard, Sarah – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Describes a study that concluded that children generally treat the spatial locatives "in front of" and "behind" in a nondeictic way when a referent object with an obvious front is involved. Tasks that emphasized the viewpoint of the observer, however, caused a deictic response. (GLR)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Tests, Language Processing, Language Research
MacLeod, Colin M.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
In a modification of the sentence-picture comprehension task (Chase & Clark, 1972), 70 university undergraduates verified sentence-picture pairs. The findings limit the generalizability of any linguistic comparison model; two different comprehension strategies were used consistently by different subjects, whose choices of strategy were predictable…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Comprehension
