On Children's Interpretations of Negation.

De Boysson-Bardies, Benedicte

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Publication Date: 1977

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On Children's Interpretations of Negation

De Boysson-Bardies, Benedicte

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 23, 1, 117-127, Feb 77

A total of 336 French children between 4 and 10 years old were asked to draw representations of French negative sentences. It was demonstrated that the interpretation of negative sentences depends on phenomena of surface as well as deep structure. (MS)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Freehand Drawing, Language Acquisition, Negative Forms (Language), Research Methodology, Sentence Structure

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Identifiers - Location: France

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