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Peer reviewedScholnick, Ellin K.; Wing, Clara S. – Journal of Child Language, 1983
The relationship between knowledge and reasoning was explored through 12 males' and 12 females' (aged 12, 15, and adult) solutions to written syllogisms containing four conjunctions, and evaluations of single sentences for their pragmatic content. The relationship between comprehension of pragmatic uncertainty and detection of uncertain…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Child Language
Wald, Benji – 1984
A study of the syntactic development of discourse in and after adolescence among fluent English speakers in a bilingual community of East Los Angeles focused on subordinate devices not observed until adolescence, such as the relative clause using "which" and clauses using "even though/although." Discourse analysis of these…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Child Language, Discourse Analysis
Gowie, Cheryl J.; Powers, James E. – 1977
Developmental trends in the effects of expectations regarding agent/action matches on judgments of sentence acceptability were investigated. Five sentences reflected expected relations ("harmonious") and five contradicted them ("contrary"). Twelve subjects each were in grades 4 through 8 during year 1; the same 60 subjects…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Children, Grammar
