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Peer reviewedTempleton, Shane; Spivey, Edwinna M. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1980
The developmental nature of the reflective concept of "word" in young children was investigated and the degree to which these developmental aspects of metalinguistic awareness correspond to levels of cognitive development as described by Piaget was studied. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Wollen, Keith A.; Lowry, Douglas H. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
Research supported by grants from the United States Public Health Service and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (DS)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Experiments, Imagery, Language Research
Peer reviewedLitowitz, Bonnie E.; Novy, Forrest A. – Journal of Child Language, 1984
Investigates expression of part-whole semantic relation by children 3 to 12 years old and indicates that older children prefer its use significantly more often. The part-whole semantic relation was also observed to take several linguistic forms, such as partitive, spatial, and possessive. Age, experimental task format, or type of experimental…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development
Geer, Sandra E.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Research supported by a Public Health Service Research grant. (VM)
Descriptors: Language Research, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedBenedict, Helen – Journal of Child Language, 1979
This article reports on a study designed to obtain data on the first words understood and produced by eight infants. It provides a descriptive account of the earliest levels of language comprehension and allows comparison of lexical development in comprehension and production. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Competence
Download full textNagy, William; Gentner, Dedre – 1987
A study focused on the nature and effect of constraints on the hypotheses that learners make about the meanings of words. Two experiments were conducted at a large midwestern university: the first, involving 68 undergraduate students divided randomly into two groups, tested taxonomic and durative constraints on nouns, and time of day and cessation…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Definitions, Higher Education
Barton, David – 1976
Several studies have begun to investigate the claim that children can make most phonological discriminations when they begin to speak. This paper investigates how well children aged 2;3 to 2;11 can discriminate between pairs of minimally different real words, and it shows that the results are affected by how well the children know the words. It is…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Distinctive Features (Language)
