Metalinguistic awareness is displayed in the following child stamen: "the table has four legs and iron sides?
An early pruning of unused or rarely experienced mental data is believed to take place as early as age four.
The best response to a preschooler who stammer or stutters when speaking is to ask him or her to repeat the speech until it is error free.
At group times, to promote turn taking teachers sometimes use a "your turn to listen and my turn to talk " prop.
It is professional for a teacher to tell a child, "that kind of talk is inacceptable" if the child' words are socially questionable.
Hearing other playmates speech has the greatest influence on whether a child self-corrects his/her speech errors.