Children's Use of Expectations as a Source of Information in Language Comprehension.

Gowie, Cheryl J.; Powers, James E.

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Publication Date: 1978-Dec

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Children's Use of Expectations as a Source of Information in Language Comprehension.

Gowie, Cheryl J.; Powers, James E.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v26 n3 p472-88 Dec 1978

Discussion of the theoretical and methodological implications of six studies of the effect of children's expectations on comprehension of the passive transformation and of the Minimum Distance Principle. Study subjects were in kindergarten or elementary school. (Author/MP)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Expectation, Intellectual Development, Kindergarten Children, Psycholinguistics, Research, Transformational Generative Grammar

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Language: English

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