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Currie, Nicola K.; Cain, Kate – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
We examined knowledge-based inference in 6-, 8- and 10-year-olds. Participants listened to texts where the number of clues for an inference was manipulated and then judged whether single-word probes (target inference, competing inference, literal word from the text and an unrelated concept) were related to the story. Accuracy and response times…
Descriptors: Inferences, Children, Story Reading, Accuracy