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Eisele, Julie; Lust, Barbara – Child Development, 1996
Children and adults made truth-value judgments on matches between pictures and sentences with pronouns and possible antecedents. Results revealed the role of dependence on grammatical structure in pronoun interpretation for all ages; a significant effect of pronoun directionality (position relative to antecedent); and adults' bias related to…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Language Usage, Pragmatics

Kramer, Pamela E.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
Subjects between 8 and 20 years of age were tested for competence on an exception to a grammatical rule, the minimal distance rule. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Competence