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Pyykkonen, Pirita; Matthews, Danielle; Jarvikivi, Juhani – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Recent evidence from adult pronoun comprehension suggests that semantic factors such as verb transitivity affect referent salience and thereby anaphora resolution. We tested whether the same semantic factors influence pronoun comprehension in young children. In a visual world study, 3-year-olds heard stories that began with a sentence containing…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Verbs