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Rossi, Franca; Pontecorvo, Clotilde – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1989
The results of a study that examined the semantic and the morph-syntactic awareness of 60 elementary school children are presented. Subjects were given the tasks of substituting a new word for each word indicated in a sentence, and choosing to eliminate any word in a sentence in order to insert a new one. (CFM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education, Language Processing, Language Research
Download full textHoppe, Ronald A.; Kess, Joseph F. – 1982
The acquisition of the metalinguistic abilities involved in ambiguity detection and resolution was studied with children. It is suggested that metalinguistic abilities may serve as potential test measures for facility in learning a second language. School children (ages 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13) were tested for their ability to detect ambiguous…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Child Language, Comprehension, Concept Formation
