Descriptor
| Linguistic Competence | 23 |
| Age Differences | 8 |
| Language Acquisition | 8 |
| Preschool Children | 8 |
| Comprehension | 6 |
| Children | 3 |
| Cognitive Development | 3 |
| Data Analysis | 3 |
| Elementary School Students | 3 |
| Language Research | 3 |
| Research | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Child Development | 23 |
Author
| Abbeduto, Leonard | 1 |
| Bacharach, Verne R. | 1 |
| Brown, H, Douglas | 1 |
| Bryson, Juanita | 1 |
| Corrigan, Roberta | 1 |
| Cunningham, Charles E. | 1 |
| Demorest, Amy | 1 |
| Dennis, Maureen | 1 |
| Dunn, Judy | 1 |
| Elardo, Richard | 1 |
| Foorman, Barbara R. | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 11 |
| Reports - Research | 11 |
Education Level
Audience
| Researchers | 3 |
Location
| Canada | 1 |
| Japan | 1 |
| United Kingdom (England) | 1 |
| United States | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Peabody Picture Vocabulary… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedMoffitt, Alan R. – Child Development, 1971
Infants were able to discriminate between bah" and gah" syllables, indicating that linguistic-perceptual capacities are present during early life. (WY)
Descriptors: Consonants, Cues, Infants, Linguistic Competence
Peer reviewedSchwartz, Richard G. – Child Development, 1980
The relationship between children's concepts of life and their judgments and revisions of sentences with violations of animacy restrictions was examined. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Linguistic Competence, Perception, Sentences
Peer reviewedBacharach, Verne R.; Luszcz, Mary A. – Child Development, 1979
Investigates the effects of implicit linguistic information on the conversational responses of preschool children. Following a conversation in which the experimenter's remarks were intended to implicitly focus a child's attention on either an action or an object portrayed in a picture, subjects were asked to describe the picture. (JMB)
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Verbal Communication
Peer reviewedDunn, Judy; Shatz, Marilyn – Child Development, 1989
Investigated the ability of six children at ages 24, 26, 28, 30, 33, and 36 months to understand the topic of talk not addressed to them. Analyzed children's intrusions into conversations between their mothers and older siblings. Results indicated that intrusions formed a considerable proportion of children's talk. (RJC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence, Listening Comprehension
Peer reviewedMcNeill, David; And Others – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Comprehension, Japanese, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence
Peer reviewedSwoboda, Philip J.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
This study investigated vowel discrimination in 8-week-old infants. Using a nonnutritive, high-amplitude sucking measure in a habituation-dishabituation paradigm. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Infants
Peer reviewedDennis, Maureen; And Others – Child Development, 1982
Examines the abilities of 50 children (10 each at ages 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 years) to produce tag questions. Of particular interest was the determination of whether or not constituents of a correct tag are acquired at different ages. (MP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedStern, Carolyn; Bryson, Juanita – Child Development, 1970
Descriptors: Adjectives, Cognitive Ability, Disadvantaged Youth, Linguistic Competence
Peer reviewedSiegel, Linda S.; And Others – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Classification, Feedback, Linguistic Competence, Logical Thinking
Peer reviewedKramer, Pamela E.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Subjects between 8 and 20 years of age were tested for competence on an exception to a grammatical rule, the minimal distance rule. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Competence
Peer reviewedFoorman, Barbara R.; Kinoshita, Yoshiko – Child Development, 1983
A referential communication task was used to compare the effects of linguistic structure on the encoding and decoding performances of 120 five- and seven-year-old children. Results suggested that differences in adjective ordering rules and stylistic variation affect encoding and decoding accuracy. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedCorrigan, Roberta – Child Development, 1975
Nine tasks were designed to test the developmental sequence of three types of "because" (affective, physical, concrete logical) in 100 children aged 3 to 7 years. The tasks tested whether comprehension of "because" preceded its usage and at what point children understood that sentences with reversed clauses were incorrect.…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Developmental Tasks, Intellectual Development, Linguistic Competence
Peer reviewedJames, Sharon L.; Miller, Jon F. – Child Development, 1973
Analysis indicates that both 5 and 7-year-old children are capable of distinguishing between anomalous and meaningful sentences although 7-year-olds demonstrate greater awareness of selection restriction rules. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Context Clues, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedCunningham, Charles E.; And Others – Child Development, 1981
Descriptors: Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Linguistic Competence, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedDemorest, Amy; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Asks adults and 6-, 9- and, 13 year olds' questions about tape-recorded stories in order to investigate their ability to recognize sincere, deceptive, and sarcastic remarks. Results indicate that the youngest children interpret all remarks as sincere; 9 and 13 year olds can appreciate deliberate falsehood, but only adults identify sarcasm.…
Descriptors: Adults, Body Language, Children, Developmental Stages
Previous Page | Next Page ยป
Pages: 1 | 2
