Example sentences of "studies [prep] children 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additional criticisms of Skinner 's position have arisen from empirical studies of children 's language . |
| 2 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 3 | In contrast to the grammarian 's concern to represent language as a rule-governed system for expressing meanings , recent psychological studies of children 's language have increasingly addressed language as part of a larger social process broadly concerned with the regulation of joint activity . |
| 4 | Large regional studies of children 's smoking habits during the 1960 's and 1970's showed that more boys smoked than girls and that boys started earlier [ 3 ] . |
| 5 | In contrast , most of the studies which challenge Piaget 's argument are observational studies of children 's production . |
| 6 | There is therefore not a large discrepancy between studies of children 's linguistic abilities in this area , and studies of their cognitive abilities which show that three-year-olds are able to distinguish between causes and effects . |
| 7 | Studies of children 's comprehension of causal connectives have tended to concentrate on the empirical mode . |
| 8 | On the other hand , studies of children 's spontaneous production have revealed that most of the causal sentences which children produce refer to intentions ( Hood , 1977 ; McCabe and Peterson , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | This theme is echoed by the discrepancy in results between experimental and observational studies of children 's knowledge of causal connectives . |
| 10 | Although studies of children 's explanations have identified some weaknesses , the overall picture , as with many other aspects of cognitive and linguistic development , is of an extremely competent five-year-old who has the basic cognitive and linguistic abilities for giving and understanding explanations of events and actions . |