Immediacy and Certainty: Factors in Understanding Future Reference.

Harner, Lorraine

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Immediacy and Certainty: Factors in Understanding Future Reference.

Harner, Lorraine

Journal of Child Language, v9 n1 p115-24 Feb 1982

In interviews, children understood past forms equally well in reference to immediate and remote past but future forms better in reference to the immediate future. Immediacy of action and certainty of occurrence are suggested as early meaning components of future verb forms. (Author)

Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Psycholinguistics, Receptive Language, Verbs, Young Children

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