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Come and Go Reconsidered: Children's Use of Deictic Verbs in Contrived Situations
Richards, Meredith Martin – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
A production-based method of investigating children's understanding of deictic verbs is described. Use of "come/go" and "bring/take" by 4-7-year-olds is compared with Clark and Garnica's 1974 study. Data reveal different facts about verb acquisition processes and order. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Ability, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
On the Child's Acquisition of Antonyms in Two Semantic Fields
Clark, Eve V. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Research supported in part by a National Science Foundation Grant. (VM)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Experiments, Information Processing
The Production of "Child-Like" Word Associations by Adults to Unfamiliar Adjectives
Stolz, Walter S.; Tiffany, Janice – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Iconic Factors and Language Word Order
Moeser, Shannon Dawn – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
College students were presented with an artificial language in which spoken nonsense words were correlated with visual references. Inferences regarding vocabulary acquisition were drawn, and it was suggested that the processing of the language was mediated through a semantic memory system. (CK)
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Language Learning Levels, Memory, Second Language Learning
Individual Differences in Acquisition of Derivational Morphology.
Freyd, Pamela; Baron, Jonathan – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1982
Presents study in which eighth and superior fifth graders were given a vocabulary test consisting of simple words and derived words. Results show superiority of fifth graders was greater for derived words due to their tendency to analyze these words into roots and suffixes. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, English, Grade 5
Echoic Utterances of Children between the Ages of One and Three Years
Nakanishi, Yasuko; Owada, Kenjiro – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Grammar, Imitation
Lexical Codability and Age
Butterfield, Gail B.; Butterfield, Earl C. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
People of ages 4, 6, 8, 10, 20 and 70 years named pictures selected to represent the entire range of lexical consensus among 20-year-olds. Consensus within each group increased with age, up to 20. Data indicate words coding culturally important events are acquired earliest. (CHK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Language Acquisition, Lexicology, Verbal Development
Memory Strategy Monitoring in Adults and Children.
Pressley, Michael; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Results of five experiments in which adults and children were exposed to two study strategies for vocabulary learning: (1) repetition of words with meanings and (2) associative elaboration (the keyword method). Subjects were asked to choose one of the two study methods for learning a 24-item list of new vocabulary words. (SL)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Tests