Effect of Meaningfulness on Learning Syntactic Units.
The article presents a study examining the influence of meaningfulness and non meaningfulness on the learning of syntactic word pairs with institutionalized mentally retarded and normal children. Through a paired-associate technique, subjects were presented with a list of meaningful and nonmeaningfu...
| Published in: | American Journal of Mental Deficiency Vol. 75; no. 1; pp. 27 - 33 |
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American Association on Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
Jul1970
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