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Table 28
The responses given to the small and large revised SA and UK pictures for each two-month
age interval for the Indian pre-schoolers of sample 1 and 2
AGE SMALL
PICT-
URES
Two-month
interval
Mean
no. of
Stimuli
identified
Mean
no. of
Stimuli
SAMPLE 1 SAMPLE 2
LARGE SA PICTURE
Mean
no. of
Descriptive
words
Mean
no. of
Descriptivesentences
Mean
no. of
Pronouns
SMALL
PICT-
URES
Mean
no. of
Stimuli
identified
Mean
no. of
Stimuli
LARGE UK PICTURE
Mean
no. of
Descriptive
words
Mean
no. of
Descriptivesentences
60-61 19 24 6 2 0 19 23 4 1 0
62-63 - - - - - - - - - -
64-65 18 18 2 2 1 18 17 2 2 1
66-67 19 18 3 1 1 19 19 1 1 0
68-69 19 28 4 2 0 19 25 2 1 1
70-71 18 17 2 1 0 18 15 2 1 0
72-73 18 16 2 1 0 19 14 2 1 1
74-75 17 21 3 5 2 17 21 3 2 1
76-77 18 26 2 2 1 18 29 1 2 0
78-79 18 23 2 1 1 18 21 3 1 1
80-81 18 29 1 2 2 18 28 2 2 0
82-83 17 31 11 10 2 16 24 3 3 1
Regarding the small revised pictures the Indian pre-schoolers from both samples
Mean
no. of
Pronouns
pictures indicated that the highest mean number of correctly identified pictures was exhibited
by children in the younger two-month age intervals.
Regarding the large SA and UK pictures, the Indian pre-schoolers from each two-
month age interval, indicated a diverse array of the highest and lowest mean number of
elicited descriptive words, descriptive sentences and pronouns. The range of elicited
descriptive words and sentences from the Indian pre-schoolers of sample 1, were one-to-
eleven, and one-to-ten respectively. The present study's finding is contradictory to the
study's completed by Templin (1957) and McCarthy (1930, 1954) who demonstrated the
gradual growth of a child's vocabulary and word classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,
pronouns & conjunctions) in relation to age. Furthermore, Griffith's (1960) proposed criteria,
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