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Sumer, Beyza; Ozyurek, Asli – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Linguistic expressions of locative spatial relations in sign languages are mostly visually motivated representations of space involving mapping of entities and spatial relations between them onto the hands and the signing space. These are also morphologically complex forms. It is debated whether modality-specific aspects of spatial expressions…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Mapping, Morphology (Languages)
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Smyth, Ron – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Examines cognitive development in 141 children (ages 5 to 8) and the use of pragmatic cues for anaphora resolution performed in verbal and puppet tasks with biased and neutral sentences. Violations of pragmatic constraint decreased with age and task, consistent with the perspective-shift model. Parallel function effects in neutral sentences were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages)