'percepluaΓ than “semantic” properties. Children in the definition condition, during
the immediate post test provided significantly more “semantic” than
“perceptwrz/”properties, whereas in the delayed post test they provided significantly
more “perceptual” than “semantic” properties.

Concluding remarks for the sentence generation task

► The analysis of the sentence generation task demonstrated that the older children
performed better than the younger ones. Differences by linguistic condition were also
found. Children in the Inference condition performed better than children in the other
conditions. The same pattern was found within each age group. Differences over time
were also found. The children performed better during the delayed than the
immediate post test. The same pattern was found for the Analogy condition.
Children’s performance on the sentence generation task did not differ by their
existing vocabulary, whereas significant differences were found by their phonological
memory. Particularly, the children with high phonological memory performed better
than the children with low phonological memory. The same pattern was found within
each age group and linguistic condition.

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