“in”, “on”, and “under” revisited

Wilcox, Stephen; Palermo, David S.

doi:10.1016/0010-0277(74)90011-0

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“…Other researchers assessing comprehension of locative prepositions identified a common error subjects make as the tendency to make the simplest motor response (Wilcox and Palermo, 1975). This error was observed in all age groups, but particularly in younger age groups, with children consistently selecting the bottom picture in the picture task, perhaps because it was the closest picture of the three-picture array.…”

Section: Comparisons By Age Groupmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Incongruent Task: task that relies on linguistic information rather than the perceptual relationships between objects involved (Wilcox and Palermo, 1975).…”

Section: Directional Prepositionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Wilcox and Palermo (1975) used the terms "contextually congruent" and "contextually incongruent'' to describe different stimulus conditions used to assess the locative prepositions "in," "on," and "under." Contextually congruent tasks were those that "made sense" with regard to the objects involved in the task (e.g., putting a teapot on a table).…”

Section: Object Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These results may be influenced by what Wilcox and Palermo (1975) call "congruency" or "incongruency" of tasks used to assess locative prepositions. They found that younger children often perform better on incongruent tasks that do not make sense with regard to the situation, while older children perform better on congruent tasks that do fit with the situation.…”

Section: Comparisons By Age Groupmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Assessment variables of context, task, and response mode have also been examined to determine how they affect children's expression and comprehension of different prepositions, according to their age (Harris and Strommen, 1972;Wilcox and Palermo, 1975;Kuczaj and Maratsos, 1975;Ault, Cromer and Mitchel, 1977;Washington and Naremore, 1978;Johnston and Slobin, 1979;Silliman, 1979;Levine and Carey, 1982;Johnston, 1984). Significant differences in children's performances on tasks assessing comprehension and use of prepositions have resulted from using varied contexts, tasks and response modes.…”

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An investigation of the effect of using varying stimuli to assess normal children's comprehension of five locative prepositions

Versteeg¹

2000

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Assessing children's knowledge of locative prepositions has been a focus of interest for both researchers and practicing clinicians over the past two decades (Boehm, 1969;E. Clark, 1973).Information about locative prepositions can give insight into how children acquire understanding of these relationships, as well as providing information about assessing and faciljitating this understanding in both normal and I language disordered children. Speech-language pathologists routinely 2 assess normal and language disordered children's understanding and use of locative prepositions, since these relationships are so frequently occurring in our language and appear to have value across different communicative contexts (Zyve, 1927;Lahey and Bloom, 1977).A recurring concern in recent research appears to be the role that assessment variables play in accurately measuring children's knowledge and use of prepositions. Age and order of acquisition of prepositions has become a dynamic rather than static standard, as different ways of assessing prepositions also give different results (Johnston and Slobin, 1979; E. Clark, 1981;Johnston, 1984). These researchers have investigated assessment variables such as context (picture, object, no context) and response (self actions, manipulating, pointing) in assessing normal children's understanding and use of prepositions (Harris and

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Section: Comparisons By Age Groupmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Incongruent Task: task that relies on linguistic information rather than the perceptual relationships between objects involved (Wilcox and Palermo, 1975).…”

Section: Directional Prepositionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Object Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Comparisons By Age Groupmentioning

confidence: 99%