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Peer reviewedDale, Philip S.; Crain-Thoreson, Catherine – Journal of Child Language, 1993
The role of cognitive and linguistic individual differences as well as contextual factors and processing complexity were examined as determinants of pronoun reversal (I/you). It is proposed that pronoun reversals commonly result from a failure to perform a deicitic shift, which is especially likely when children's psycholinguistic processing…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Context Effect, Individual Differences
