Four-Year-Olds' Understanding of Pretend and Forget: No Evidence for Propositional Reasoning.

Hidi, Suzanne E.; Hildyard, Angela

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Publication Date: 1979-Oct

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Four-Year-Olds' Understanding of Pretend and Forget: No Evidence for Propositional Reasoning.

Hidi, Suzanne E.; Hildyard, Angela

Journal of Child Language, v6 n3 p493-510 Oct 1979

Evidence is provided to refute the suggestion, made by Macnamara et al. (1976), that four-year-old children perform logical operations corresponding to formal logic upon the sentential components of implicative verbs to produce indirect implications. It is argued that children use past knowledge plus additional premises to derive indirect implications. (Author/AM)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Deduction, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Logic, Logical Thinking, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Verbs, Young Children

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