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