developmental trend
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdevelopmentalandtrend
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developmental
adjective
uk/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.təl/us/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.t̬əl/
connected with the development of someone ...
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trend
noun[C]
uk/trend/us/trend/
a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people ...
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(Definition ofdevelopmentalandtrendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The gyrodactylids display the extreme condition of thisdevelopmentaltrend, viviparity.
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Findings indicated a cleardevelopmentaltrendamong the different age g roups studied.
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This result indicates a cleardevelopmentaltrendtowards a progressive increase in the use of reformulations.
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Such overall correct scores, however, can reveal only the most generaldevelopmentaltrend.
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Interestingly, the disambiguation patterns for facts followed a distinctdevelopmentaltrend.
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A similardevelopmentaltrendhas been found in the cognitive domain.
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Hogrefe et al. (1986) suggest that the results they found indicate a cleardevelopmentaltrend.
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Last, the age range of our two groups is possibly too restricted to reveal adevelopmentaltrend.
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Although automatic inferences are ubiquitous across the lifespan, there is adevelopmentaltrendtoward increasingly explicit reasoning.
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Thisdevelopmentaltrendwas not confirmed in the condition where children had to comprehend that replicas could be symbols.
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This lastdevelopmentaltrendappears due to older listeners showing a much greater advantage than younger listeners for the nonrhyming materials.
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The change in the temporal results across the three age groups suggests adevelopmentaltrendin the expectations of adult observers.
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This suggests that there should be adevelopmentaltrendin children's attention to shape with deformables when a count noun syntactic frame is used.
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Only by taking into consideration all three subtypes of classifiers (sortal, mensural and verbal) is it possible for a completedevelopmentaltrendto be validly identified.
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Our first analysis assessed thedevelopmentaltrendover time for our main measures of expressive and receptive vocabulary.
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This is not adevelopmentaltrend.
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In general, even though the specific effects of the thematic function of the agent role were unexpected, this result validates our assumption and confirms thedevelopmentaltrendin written production.
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The subjects produced a high percentage of figurative expressions with a cleardevelopmentaltrendthat is concluded in adolescence.
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