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Schachter, Frances Fuchs; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Compares older and newer methods of studying language acquisition in younger and older toddlers in an attempt to explain discrepancies in the literature concerning whether girls are more advanced than boys in language acquisition. (SS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Infants, Language Acquisition, Preschool Education

Koenigsknecht, Roy A.; Friedman, Philip – Child Development, 1976
The Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) procedure was used to collect normative information about the syntax development of male and female children. (SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Research

Snuppes, Patrick; Feldman, Shirley – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1971
Reports two experiments: 1) an investigation of the extent to which 4-to 6-year-old children comprehend the logical connectives of conjunction, disjunction, and negation; and 2) an investigation of the role of idioms in children's understanding of sentential connectives. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition, Listening Comprehension

Jennings, Kay D.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
Thirty-five children who had participated in a study of mastery motivation at one year of age were reevaluated at 3.5 years. Findings differed for boys and girls and indicated that a wide range of behaviors in the cognitive-motivational domain must be examined to find developmental continuities. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Infants, Language Acquisition

Berry, Franklin; And Others – Journal of Psychology, 1974
Discusses the interaction of age and sex factors on consistency of recognition of 71 Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test pictures by preschool children. (TO)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Pictorial Stimuli

Lutzer, Victoria DeFilippo – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1991
Sixty-six preschoolers were asked to explain eight metaphors presented orally. Results indicated that older preschoolers gave significantly more metaphoric correct and metaphoric incorrect responses than did younger preschoolers; boys gave more metaphoric correct responses than girls; and girls gave significantly more consequential responses than…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Creativity, Language Acquisition, Metaphors

Jackson, Sandra C.; Roberts, Joanne E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2001
This study examined changes in the complex syntax production of 85 African American preschoolers and the role of child (gender, age, African American English) and family (home environment) factors. Age, gender, and home environment effects were found for the amount of complex language used. African American English was not related to amount of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Dialects, Black Students, Expressive Language
Evans, David – Special Education: Forward Trends, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Downs Syndrome, Drafting, Exceptional Child Research
Gutmann, Arlyne J.; Turnure, James E. – 1979
This study investigates hand gesturing behavior produced by mothers communicating with their first born 2- to 3-year-old children and their 4- to 5-year-old children. Thirty-two mother-child pairs were assigned to groups balanced equally for age and sex. After it was confirmed that the older children produced longer utterances, the mother-child…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Communication Skills, Language Acquisition
Lindsay, Marie Rumford – 1969
An investigation was designed to ascertain the change in the spontaneous oral vocabulary of 25 boys and 25 girls in four successive biennial interviews as the children progressed from kindergarten through grades two, four, and six. The investigation assumed the probable interrelation of children's reading and oral language. Six hypotheses were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Hypothesis Testing, Interviews

Edelsky, Carole – Language Arts, 1976
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Educational Research, Language Acquisition

Phillips, Juliet R. – Child Development, 1973
Study examined the hypotheses that adults do not speak to children as they speak to other adults and that the speech addressed to a child becomes more adult-like as the child increases in linguistic competence. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Articulation (Speech), Language Acquisition, Mothers
Bidlack, Betty M. – 1985
A study of the development of abstract noun definitions in children and adolescents had as its subjects 120 students evenly divided into age groups of 10-, 14-, and 18-year-olds, randomly selected from students scoring in the 40th to 88th percentiles on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (for 10-year-olds) and the Tests of Achievement and Proficiency…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Age Differences, Children
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Lewis, Michael – 1975
This study examined the social labels which are first used by infants, social differentiation on the basis of labeling behavior, and overgeneralization of social labels. Subjects were 81 infants from 9 to 36 months of age. The 9- to 24-month-olds were shown slides of themselves, their mothers, their fathers, and unfamiliar children, babies, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Fathers, Infants

Sawyer, R. Keith – Discourse Processes, 1996
Analyzes play discourse participation frameworks in groups of different gender and age compositions, focusing on different ways that children "voice" a pretend play role. Uses a preschool classroom for an observational study. Finds significant differences in voicing used by older and younger play groups. Discusses results with respect to the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classroom Research, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities