developmental phase
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdevelopmentalandphase
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developmental
adjective
uk/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.təl/us/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.t̬əl/
connected with the development of someone ...
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phase
noun[C]
uk/feɪz/us/feɪz/
any stage in a series of events or in a process ...
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(Definition ofdevelopmentalandphasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Most of our country is now in thisdevelopmentalphase.
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Some equipment may remain in thedevelopmentalphasefor longer than expected.
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Snapshot views of thisdevelopmentalphasedo not adequately capture the evolving nature of adjustment.
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Furthermore, we would not expect crosslinguistic in-uence to occur in both directions during the samedevelopmentalphase.
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The second strategy (antigenic variation) is defined as periodic modification of surface antigens within a singledevelopmentalphase.
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It is possible that thedevelopmentalphaseof measurement may affect the predictability of certain conduct problems.
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We see that in the finaldevelopmentalphase, the numbers of finite verbs and infinitives approach equality.
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These data were entered into a 3r3 analysis of variance with morpheme anddevelopmentalphaseas within subject variables.
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In this laterdevelopmentalphase, the outcome of crosslinguistic influence is therefore likely to be pragmatically inappropriate commission errors.
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However, it remains unknown whether bipolar disorder in children is a completely separate disorder or adevelopmentalphaseof adult bipolar disorder.
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Figure 2 presents the relative frequencies of object-verb and verb-object order in the two corpora as a function ofdevelopmentalphase.
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Also, the rate of development during these phases was calculated as 1/d, where d is the duration, in days, of each respectivedevelopmentalphase.
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Specifically, the last larval moult seemed to be the most sensitivedevelopmentalphase, with the strongest temporal anticipation under constant conditions.
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However, contrary to the predictions of the processing limitations account, the proportion of overt subjects that were pronominal increased withdevelopmentalphase.
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The restricted sample size precluded any analyses of discrete subgroups separated bydevelopmentalphase, and necessitated, instead, controlling for age in all statistical analyses.
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Our questions relate to explanations of contemporary functioning and to the predictors of change from onedevelopmentalphaseto the next.
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From this developmental perspective, the individual's biological capacities are shaped and modified at eachdevelopmentalphaseby interchange with the environment.
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Furthermore, intrusive procedures in this "sensitive zone" during thisdevelopmentalphasemay be experienced as frightening; they evoke protests as well as painful muscular contractions.
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Inflectional forms were used with sufficient frequency to argue that the nominative case and agreement relations were subjecthood properties that were used productively at thisdevelopmentalphase.
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The foundation is in adevelopmentalphase.
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Some narcissistic traits are common with a normaldevelopmentalphase.
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Second, if language dominance was the reason for cross-linguistic in-uence, we would not expect cross-linguistic in-uence to occur in reverse directions during the samedevelopmentalphase.
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Table 9 shows that for each child and eachdevelopmentalphase, agreement errors were far more likely to be due to contrastive verb morphology than to overlapping verb morphology.
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However, the results of the present study are based on speech from 12 children, with at least 10 one-hour transcripts contributing to eachdevelopmentalphasefor each child.
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However, it will also be remembered that in the children's data, the difference in the proportion of subjects and objects that were pronouns became more pronounced withdevelopmentalphase.
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