Children's Comprehension of Contrastive Connectives

Autor/in	Spenader, Jennifer
Titel	Children's Comprehension of Contrastive Connectives
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 45 (2018) 3, S.610-640 (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Indo European Languages; Contrastive Linguistics; Children; Age Differences; Comprehension; Form Classes (Languages); Communication Skills; Language Skills; Elementary School Students; Adults; Sentences; Inferences; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Indoeuropäisch; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Child; Kind; Kinder; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Verstehen; Verständnis; Analytischer Sprachbau; Kommunikationsstil; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Inference; Inferenz; Niederlande
Abstract	Production studies show connective acquisition by age 3;0, but comprehension studies show errors until 9;0 or older. To further investigate this gap, two comprehension tasks were carried out with 78 Dutch children between the ages of 7;0 and 10;1, testing contrastive "maar" 'but' and causal "want" 'because' connectives for comparison. An existing context choice task and a task that tested children's ability to interpret pronouns dependent on the connective were used. Children did well on the context choice task for "want" 'because', but performed far below chance with "maar" 'but'. In the pronoun interpretation task the youngest children performed at or near chance with both connectives, but show gradual improvement with age. Task complexity may partially explain the results but in general, they are consistent with previous experiments showing contrastive connective comprehension is acquired very late compared to their correct production. Further, the pronoun interpretation task may give a more accurate picture of understanding. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01