When do children avoid backwards coreference?
| Autor: | Sarita Eisenberg, Helen Smith Cairns, Jennifer Ryan Hsu, Gloria Schlisselberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Linguistics and Language Phrase Concept Formation media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Verbal learning Language Development Language and Linguistics Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Attention Child General Psychology media_common Coreference Grammar Phrase structure rules Middle Aged Syntax Linguistics Semantics Language development Child Preschool Speech Perception Female Psychology Sentence Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Language. 18:339-353 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7602 0305-0009 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0305000900011090 |
| Popis: | This study investigated the claim that very young children avoid backwards coreference in their interpretation of sentences containing pronouns. Eighty-one children ranging in age from 3;1 to 8;0 and eight adults acted out four types of pronominal sentences. Cross-sectional data and individual response patterns reveal that children initially, prefer internal coreference even when such a response is disallowed for structural reasons. Avoidance of backwards coreference appears to be a late developing phenomenon characteristic of six-year-olds. Adult response patterns, which are manifested by some very young children, emerge as the dominant pattern by age seven. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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