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Peer reviewedAvrutin, Sergey; Wexler, Kenneth – Language Acquisition, 2000
Examined Russian-speaking children's knowledge of syntactic and discourse-related restrictions on the interpretation of pronouns in subjunctive clauses. Eighteen children (4-5 years of age) participated in a truth-value judgment task. In constructions in which syntactic knowledge is implicated, children's performance is very similar to that of…
Descriptors: Adults, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Pronouns
