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From: erich@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Erich Boleyn)
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Subject: Reference needed
Keywords: psychology, reference
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Date: 6 Sep 90 01:07:56 GMT
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Hi,

   I am searching for the reference to something I heard a long time ago
about an experiment that was conducted on young children concerning pattern
matching and generalizing skills.

   From what I remember, it was done with sets of colored blocks of
various shapes, and the children were given feedback on how strings of
these blocks were formed (syntactically).  It was based on the english
language, and although many of them became quite good at it, none of them
made the connection that they were using a derivative of english (apparently
it was very similar).

   I would appreciate anything on this (send e-mail to: erich@eecs.ee.pdx.edu)
and thanks.

   Erich

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