developmental phenomenon
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdevelopmentalandphenomenon
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developmental
adjective
uk/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.təl/us/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.t̬əl/
connected with the development of someone ...
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phenomenon
noun[C]
uk/fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/us/fəˈnɑː.mə.nɑːn/
something that exists and can be seen, felt, tasted, etc., especially something unusual ...
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It is noteworthy, too, that the opposite pattern of depression leading to later anxiety has not emerged as adevelopmentalphenomenon.
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It seems unlikely that this is simply adevelopmentalphenomenon.
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Thus, the tendency does not appear to reflect a significantdevelopmentalphenomenon.
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This suggests that the death of starchy endosperm cells is adevelopmentalphenomenonrather than one induced by water loss.
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Accordingly, in this study we analyze intra-individual variability in children's utterances and propose a way of measuring thisdevelopmentalphenomenon.
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However, the variations in the legal age of consent (from 16 to 18 years) from one context to another clearly indicate the uncertainty about thisdevelopmentalphenomenon.
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Instead, the passage of time is an observable marker for all of the otherdevelopmentalphenomenonthat are occurring in the bodies and lives of these adolescents.
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In conclusion, hierarchical organization of the semantic system is a robustdevelopmentalphenomenonevident in both children with normal language abilities and those with developmental language impairment.
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Thisdevelopmentalphenomenonis known as language drift.
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According to this research, the manifestation of adolescent egocentrism is not a normativedevelopmentalphenomenonthat occurs only during adolescence, but varies across different contexts.
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However, it is certainly possible to have both stable individual differences over time and both contextual and microgenetic (trial-by-trial) variance in developmental phenomena.
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Some species exhibit a remarkabledevelopmentalphenomenoncalled polyembryony, in which a single egg multiplies clonally in the host and produces large numbers of identical adult wasps.
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Despite this long-standing recognition, an alternative paradigm for studying developmental phenomena has yet to emerge and gain widespread acceptance in the scientific community.
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Understanding of developmental phenomena came with the application of those principles and a working out of the mechanical and chemical factors directing the developmental process.
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And the sort of knowledge they sought involved discovering causes, specifically mechanical causes, to explain developmental phenomena.
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It was introduced to differentiate this intra-specificdevelopmentalphenomenonfrom the more widely known heterochrony, which refers to differences in developmental timing between rather than within species.
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Again, future research should tie the production models to developmental data and see how developmental phenomena affect one or another approach to production modeling.
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As a class of models, these approaches focus on processlevel accounts of human behavior and on the context dependence and heterogeneity of developmental phenomena.
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Principles of self-organization may, for the first time, suggest a comprehensive general model for understanding developmental phenomena across domains and time frames.
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