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Download full textSuppes, Patrick; Feldman, Shirley – 1969
To determine to what extent children of preschool age comprehend the meaning of logical connectives, 64 5- and 6-year-olds were told to hand differently colored and shaped wooden blocks to an experimenter. The commands involved various English idioms used for conjunction (e.g. both black and round), disjunction (either black or round), and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Peer reviewedCairns, Helen S.; Hsu, Jennifer Ryan – Journal of Child Language, 1978
Based on a study of 50 children between the ages of 3;0 and 5;6, the reasons for the differential difficulty of various forms of "who,""why,""when," and "how" questions are postulated. (EJS)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Difficulty Level
