Children's comprehension of narrative texts: Protagonists’ goals and mental representation of coherence relations
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100966
Abstract: Abstract In two experiments, we examined the effect of emphasizing protagonists’ goals within narrative texts on 8-year-olds’ ability to establish local and global coherence. The children were presented neutral and goal-emphasis versions of short goal-based… read more here.
Keywords: coherence; children comprehension; narrative texts; protagonists goals ... See more keywords
Iconicity affects children’s comprehension of complex sentences: The role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.10.015
Abstract: Complex sentences involving adverbial clauses appear in children's speech at about three years of age yet children have difficulty comprehending these sentences well into the school years. To date, the reasons for these difficulties are… read more here.
Keywords: children comprehension; input; complex sentences; clause order ... See more keywords
Children's comprehension of contrastive connectives
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000917000423
Abstract: ABSTRACT Production studies show connective acquisition by age 3;0, but comprehension studies show errors until 9;0 or older. To further investigate this gap, two comprehension tasks were carried out with 78 Dutch children between the… read more here.
Keywords: children comprehension; task; comprehension contrastive; contrastive connectives ... See more keywords
Syntactic and Pragmatic Factors in Children’s Comprehension of Cleft Constructions
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DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2017.1316725
Abstract: ABSTRACT We present a series of experiments investigating English-speaking children’s comprehension of it-clefts and wh-pseudoclefts. Previous developmental work has found children to have asymmetric difficulties interpreting object clefts. We show that these difficulties disappear when… read more here.
Keywords: syntactic pragmatic; pragmatic factors; children comprehension; factors children ... See more keywords
Limits on the Agent-First Strategy: Evidence from Children's Comprehension of a Transitive Construction in Korean
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13038
Abstract: It has long been believed across languages that the Agent-First strategy, a comprehension heuristic that maps the first noun onto the agent role, is a general cognitive bias which applies automatically and faithfully to children's… read more here.
Keywords: agent first; children comprehension; case; strategy ... See more keywords
Children’s comprehension of two types of syntactic ambiguity
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DOI: 10.1177/0142723716673952
Abstract: This study asks whether children accept both interpretations of ambiguous sentences with contexts supporting each option. Twenty-six 3- to 5-year-old English-speaking children and a control group of 30 English-speaking adults participated in a truth value… read more here.
Keywords: types syntactic; comprehension two; children comprehension; ambiguity ... See more keywords
Bengali-speaking children’s comprehension of disjunction
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DOI: 10.1177/01427237251347860
Abstract: Children struggle to comprehend that a disjunctive sentence of the form ‘Mary saw John or Peter’ gives rise to a scalar implicature (SI) that negates its stronger alternative form ‘Mary saw John and Peter’. Children’s… read more here.
Keywords: children comprehension; speaking children; disjunction; bengali speaking ... See more keywords
Children’s Comprehension of Evidentiality Through Intonation in Majorcan Catalan
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DOI: 10.1177/01427237251357668
Abstract: This paper investigates the developmental trajectory for children’s comprehension of evidential marking of directly perceived evidence through intonation in Majorcan Catalan (MC). Additionally, we aimed to explore children’s general source monitoring abilities and their capacity… read more here.
Keywords: children comprehension; intonation majorcan; intonation; evidentiality ... See more keywords