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| Autor/in | Gowie, Cheryl J. |
|---|---|
| Titel | What's Wrong with Complex Sentences? Children's Judgments of Unacceptable Elements. |
| Quelle | (1977), (11 Seiten)
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| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Child Language; Comprehension; Elementary School Students; Expectation; Junior High School Students; Language Acquisition; Language Attitudes; Language Usage; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Sentence Structure; Syntax |
| Abstract | The years after children demonstrate comprehension of particular syntactic structures have received little attention. What happens in language development after mastery is achieved? Are children then like adult speakers in judging the acceptability of grammatical structures? Questions addressed in this research were: Will older children and young adolescents, comprehending a structure, also judge it acceptable? Will judgments of acceptability and unacceptable elements be determined by Ss' age? Will judgments be under control of the type of psychological complexity built into the stimuli? Sentences were of the form, "The girl promises the boy to feed the dog"; 5 reflected and 5 contradicted the logical relations Ss considered most likely. Ss in grades 4 through 8 (12 per grade) individually heard all sentences, answered comprehension questions, evaluated the items' acceptability, and identified unacceptable elements. Comprehension was clearly demonstrated. Expectation (i.e., whether sentences reflected or contradicted the most likely logical relations), but not grade, affected judgments of acceptability. Four categories of unacceptable elements resulted: structure, agent, the verb "promise," and verb tense. Relative frequencies differed between levels of expectation and among the grades. Implications are related to developmental trends among older children, the multi-dimensional nature of expectations, and stimulus materials in future research. (Author) |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
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