Four-year-old Mandarin-speaking children’s online comprehension of relative clauses
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Children's comprehension of relative clauses.
A review of the literature on children's use of relative clause constructions reveals many contradictory findings. The suggestion is that some studies fail to take into account the two factors of embeddedness (role of complex noun phrase within the sentence) and focus (role of head noun in the relative clause). The experiment reported here attempted to reconcile the disparate findings and exten...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104103