Summary: The present study was conducted in order to examine what kind of mental representations are evoked by the so-called “generic masculine” and alternative ...

Summary: In a study with 101 children aged 3;6 to 5;11 years productive vocabulary knowledge, morpho-syntactical language skills, ...

Summary: Three experiments examined whether speech errors (spoonerisms) are in part determined by the phonological loop. The SLIP Technique was applied in these experiments to induce spoonerisms. The time interval between ...

Summary: German belongs to those languages that allow a free permutation of subject, direct object and indirect object in verb final sentences. Five linear precedence (LP) principles have been postulated to describe preference patterns for the different ...

Summary: Two groups of 11-month-old infants solved an object examination task, contrasting animals and furniture. Group A (N = 20) received each object together with a basic ...

Summary: The Gottschalk-Gleser-technique for the measure of anxiety and hostility has proved to be a valid and reliable content analytic method that was intensively used in many ...

Summary: The navigation on routes and generally the orientation in space strongly depends on the topographical nature of areas and routes. In six experiments carried out in a closed labyrinth we investigated what different kinds of ...

Summary: Little is known about how and when the phenomenon of reversing ambiguous figures develops. found that 3- and 4-year-olds never reverse when presented with an ...