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Furthermore, children manifested a marked increase in pretend-play with toy objects that were replicas of real objects specifically designed to stand for other objects.

It is a rather elegant tool one can use to engage in social activities and share ideas or perhaps coerce others to share their toys.

Children were merely demarcated as such by virtue of their smaller scale and the presence of toys, pets, and educational aids.

The work has immediate practical application in showing how domestic and personal robots, and robotic toys and pets, can most effectively interact with humans.

Separate areas provided opportunities for housekeeping, blocks, puzzles, games, and precast and manipulative toy play activities, as well as an option for individual reading.

However, the caller persists in toying with the answerer by extending the game a bit more.

One adult manipulated toy characters and props and provided the narration.

That is, using the narrower definition of nouns, at the syntactical stage more verb types than noun types were produced in the toy context.

This may be especially so when referring to toys that do not display prominent gender characteristics, for example, abstract human figures, babies and animals.

Then, while putting the magic toys away, the magician accidentally broke a toy.

For the second session, the dyads were instructed to enact the two scripted events (in counterbalanced order) using script-appropriate toys.

In the principal experimental conditions, children first heard either an ignorant or a knowledgeable speaker link a novel word with one of three toys.

Diamond coded infants' levels of interest in the hidden toys as they were hidden and then uncovered.

Greek lyric meter is then a carefully orchestrated way of toying with the expectations of metrically sophisticated listeners.

During the speech samples, the children read books or played with puppets, puzzles and other toys while talking to the research assistants.

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