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Peer reviewedGreenfield, Patricia M.; Dent, Cathy H. – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Contrasts the syntactic view of forward and backward deletion of base structure elements with the idea that pragmatic factors of situational redundancy and perceptual grouping account for conjunction reduction in children. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Conjunctions, Deep Structure
Peer reviewedCutler, Anne; Swinney, David A. – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Studies analyzing children's response time to detect word targets revealed that six-year-olds and younger children generally did not show the response time advantage for accented target words which adult listeners show, providing support for the argument that the processing advantage for accented words reflects the semantic role of accent as an…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Correlation, Deep Structure
