Interpretation of relative clauses by young children: another look.

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Interpretation of relative clauses sentences was investigated by having sixteen children between the ages of 3;5 and 4;6 act out sentences within four conditions that varied the number of potential referents for each noun within the sentence. No difference in interpretation accuracy was found between felicitous and infelicitous conditions or between biased and neutral conditions. This result raises problems for the view that children of this age know the pragmatic principles for interpreting relative clauses.

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Author/s: Eisenberg, Sarita (S);

Affiliation: Montclair State University, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, 1 Normal Avenue, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043, USA. eisenbergs@mail.montclair.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of child language (J Child Lang), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Feb; vol 29 (issue 1) : pp 177-88

Dates: Created 2002/04/23; Completed 2002/06/07; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 11968882, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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Comments and Corrections

CommentIn: J Child Lang. 2003 Aug;30(3):671-9. (PMID: 14513472)

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