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Peer reviewedPeterson, Carole; McCabe, Allyssa – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1991
Presents analyses of the use of the essential connectives "so,""because,""then," and "but" in narratives of children aged three to nine years. Connectives were used semantically, pragmatically, or, rarely, in error. Age changes were minimal. Structural complexity and elaboration improved throughout the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Conjunctions, Connected Discourse
Peer reviewedKertoy, Marilyn K. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1991
An auditory comprehension task was used to determine the ways in which first and fifth graders and adults use topic continuity and contrastive emphasis in the assignment of referents for pronouns in sentences. The finding of significant differences in performance for emphasized and unemphasized pronouns suggests that subjects use constrastive…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
