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Direct linkKidd, Evan; Bavin, Edith L. – Journal of Child Language, 2005
This paper reports on an investigation of children's (aged 3;5-9;8) comprehension of sentences containing ambiguity of prepositional phrase (PP) attachment. Results from a picture selection study (N=90) showed that children use verb semantics and preposition type to resolve the ambiguity, with older children also showing sensitivity to the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Investigations, Semantics
