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Relative clause comprehension revisited: commentary on Eisenberg (2002)

Year: 2003

Type: article

Abstract: Eisenberg (2002) presents data from an experiment investigating three- and four-year-old children's comprehension of restrictive relative clauses (RC). From the results she argues, contrary to Hamburger & Crain (1982), that children do not have discourse knowledge of the felicity conditions of RCs before acquiring the syntax of relativization. This note evaluates this conclusion on the basis of the methodology used, and proposes that an account of syntactic development needs to be sensitive to the real-time processing requirements acquisition places on the learner.

Source: Journal of Child Language

DOI: 10.1017/s0305000903005683

Author: EVAN KIDD

Institutions: Max Planck Society, University of Manchester, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Language: English

Topic: Language Development and Disorders

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1894868074

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Cites: 33

Cited by: 8

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