Early judgments of semantic and syntactic acceptability by children.
J Psycholinguist Res
; 1(4): 299-310, 1972 Dec.
Article
en En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-24197740
ABSTRACT
Judgments of the acceptability of correct, word order reversed, and semantically anomalous sentences were elicited from 2- and 3-year-old children in a game played with hand puppets. All of the sentences used were simple imperatives and each child was asked to correct those he called "wrong". Performance on the judgment task was correlated with each child's mean length of utterance and with his comprehension of reversible active and passive sentences. Only the linguistically most advanced children were able to make a significant number of appropriate judgments and corrections of reversed word order imperatives. Less developed children could appropriately judge and correct semantically anomalous but not incorrect word order imperatives. The importance of semantic as opposed to syntactic factors in children's judgments of the acceptability of sentences is stressed.
Texto completo:
1
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Psycholinguist Res
Año:
1972
Tipo del documento:
Article