developmental path

collocation in English

meaningsofdevelopmentalandpath

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developmental
adjective
uk
/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.təl/
us
/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.t̬əl/
connected with the development of someone ...
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path
noun[C]
uk
/pɑːθ/
us
/pæθ/
a route or track between one place and another, or the direction in which something ...
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(Definition ofdevelopmentalandpathfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This again may be an indication that personal and fictional narratives can take different developmental paths.
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Children who do use fillers may follow a variety of developmental paths.
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It can be of great interest to identify configurations that occur more rarely than expected by chance, for instance uncommon developmental paths.
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Planning appropriate remediation for different aberrant developmental paths.
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The study of comparative embryology aims to prove or disprove that vertebrate embryos of different classes (e.g. mammals vs. fish) follow a similardevelopmentalpathdue to their common ancestry.
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This effect of processing on the lexical content of texts follows adevelopmentalpath.
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The interplay among internal or environmental contingent events or conditions determines the precisedevelopmentalpathtaken.
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Broadly speaking, one hypothesis posits the gradual acquisition of lexical items as a means of accounting for thedevelopmentalpath.
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These studies have the advantage that they may contribute to our understanding of thedevelopmentalpath children take when they acquire two languages from birth.
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In addition, deviations from the normaldevelopmentalpaththat occur later in prenatal development are likely to specifically affect certain types of neural structure.
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Friends' deviancy was therefore linked more closely to the antisocialdevelopmentalpathof adolescent-onset children than of childhood-onset children.
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Taken together, these data suggest that onedevelopmentalpathfor children attempting to master the production of weak initial syllables is to give them some acoustic properties of stressed syllables.
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Instead, the scope of developmental psychopathology encompasses the processes, events, or conditions that increase or decrease the probability that a child will remain on an adaptivedevelopmentalpath.
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It was also to provide adevelopmentalpathto solutions for current space power architectures.
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In several studies of instructional interventions, they have demonstrated that trajectory 1, innovation to efficiency, is the betterdevelopmentalpath.
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Learners of different language backgrounds are thus predicted to follow different developmental paths.
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The first area has to do with developmental paths.
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Theoreticians have proposed different developmental paths for the acquisition of language in infants.
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