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Hopper, Robert; Miller, Leslie M. – Speech Monographs, 1972
Study explored the manner in which young children utilize meaning clues implicit in nonlinguistic aspects of context to aid comprehension of difficult sentences. (Editor)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Comprehension, Context Clues
Direct linkFelser, Claudia; Marinis, Theodore; Clahsen, Harald – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2003
In this study, we investigate children's and adults' relative clause attachment preferences in sentences such as "The student photographed the fan of the actress who was looking happy." Twenty-nine 6- to 7-year-old monolingual English children and 37 adult native speakers of English participated both in an auditory questionnaire study and in an…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Sentences, Nouns, Native Speakers
Peer reviewedBooth, James R.; MacWhinney, Brian; Harasaki, Yasuaki – Child Development, 2000
Visual and auditory processing of complex sentences was examined among 8- through 11-year-olds. Findings suggested a U-shaped learning pattern for on-line processing of restrictive relative clauses. Off-line accuracy scores showed different patterns for good and poor comprehenders. Incorrect local attachment strategy use was related to sentence…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Children, Cognitive Processes
