developmental pattern

collocation in English

meaningsofdevelopmentalandpattern

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developmental
adjective
uk
/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.təl/
us
/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.t̬əl/
connected with the development of someone ...
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pattern
noun
uk
/ˈpæt.ən/
us
/ˈpæt̬.ɚn/
a particular way in which something is done, is organized, ...
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(Definition ofdevelopmentalandpatternfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thus, morphological awareness tended to progress in a cleardevelopmentalpatternin relation to spelling of morphemes indicating past tense.
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Thisdevelopmentalpatternis consistent with infants having merged processing that later separates into two different specialized streams of processing.
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This is strikingly similar to thedevelopmentalpatternobserved in infants.
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These results suggest that bilingualism may affect thedevelopmentalpatternseen for the disambiguation effect.
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Given the study design, we were unable to examine this type of reciprocaldevelopmentalpattern.
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It was not clear whether the degree of size difference between pronuclei correlated with a specificdevelopmentalpatternor chromosomal abnormality.
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Intriguingly, this is the samedevelopmentalpatternthat emerges from children's memories of everyday events discussed earlier.
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Is prenatal smoking associated with adevelopmentalpatternof conduct problems in young boys?
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Such research is essential to claims regarding the universality of thedevelopmentalpattern.
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It is worth noting that even among youth presenting with conduct disorder there is substantial variation indevelopmentalpattern.
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Furthermore, nodevelopmentalpatternin either social class was found in the frequency of evaluative expressions in personal narratives.
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Given thisdevelopmentalpatternin comprehension, one might expect the mental images of adults to be more metaphorical than those of children.
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In fact, nonrandom colonization and the rate of exclusion are principal determinants of the component community structures regardless of thedevelopmentalpatternof trematodes.
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Percentage of the children in each age group using that process was calculated to measure thedevelopmentalpatternof the process involved.
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In our discussion section, we look first at thedevelopmentalpatternof children's use of apology terms.
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The comparison of the four types of two-word utterances made evident that each of them has a distinctdevelopmentalpattern.
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As with assimilation, there is adevelopmentalpatternevident in the realization of the elision juncture type.
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Cases exhibiting fast trajectories were predominantly girls, but several boys also followed thisdevelopmentalpattern.
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