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50 Years of ERIC
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Comprehension, Selective Imitation, and the CIP Hypothesis
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Whitehurst, Grover J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
The role of comprehension training in the selective imitation of indirect-direct object sentences was assessed for six 4-year-old children. A modeling condition resulted in normal usage of indirect-direct object sentences for five of six subjects, but reversed usage was not obtained when modeling was reversed. (MS)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Early Childhood Education, Imitation, Language Acquisition
The Development of Communication: Attribute Variation Leads to Contrast Failure
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Whitehurst, Grover J.; Sonnenschein, Susan – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
Presents a study of communication development in 5-year-old children. Subjects described multidimensional triangles for the listener. Tasks involved simple or complex attribute variation. Results indicated success only on simple tasks. (CM)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Difficulty Level, Kindergarten Children, Research
Selective Imitation of the Passive Construction through Modeling
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Whitehurst, Grover J.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Imitation, Language Acquisition, Observational Learning, Preschool Children
Intraverbal Acquisition of Semantic Concepts by Preschoolers.
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DeBaryshe, Barbara D.; Whitehurst, Grover J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Investigates the role of intraverbal learning (a process through which semantic knowledge is acquired from purely linguistic information) in preschool children's acquisition of semantic concepts. Shows that the relative effectiveness of pictorial and intraverbal information depends on the child's age, the type of information supplied, and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Developing Referential Communication Skills: The Interaction of Role-Switching and Difference Rule Training.
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Sonnenschein, Susan; Whitehurst, Grover J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Results of a training study with five-year-olds revealed that the children did not know the importance of differentiating referents from nonreferents and were unaware of complementary aspects of speaking and listening. After training in either speaking or listening modes and role switching experience, performance improved on tasks in trained and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Listening Skills, Preschool Children, Speech Skills
Training Referential Communication Skills: The Limits of Success.
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Sonnenschein, Susan; Whitehurst, Grover J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1983
By comparing the relative effectiveness of speaker and listener training, explores why an effective speaker-training technique failed to generalize to listener skills. Although speaking and listening tasks appeared to require some of the same skills, preschoolers did not exhibit spontaneous intermodality transfer. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Generalization, Kindergarten Children, Listening
The Development of Communication: When a Bad Model Makes a Good Teacher.
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Sonnenschein, Susan; Whitehurst, Grover J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Five experiments were conducted to find out what 6-year-old children learn about communication by switching listener and speaker roles with competent and incompetent adults and peers. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Communication Skills, Development
Generalized Labeling on the Basis of Structural Response Classes by Two Young Children
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Whitehurst, Grover J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reinforcement, Responses, Structural Analysis
Modeling, Imitation Training, and the Acquisition of Sentence Phrases
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Whitehurst, Grover J.; Novak, Gary – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Both modeling and imitation training were found to be effective procedures in eliciting imitation of utterances. (ST)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Research, Observational Learning, Preschool Children
Production of Novel and Grammatical Utterances by Young Children
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Whitehurst, Grover J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Study was conducted in order to obtain preliminary confirmation of the hypothesis that novel and appropriate linguistic behavior can be understood through an analysis of stimulus control. (Author)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Grammar, Imitation, Linguistic Performance