Children's judgments of the functional acceptability of referential communication in discourse context  

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Ackerman, Brian P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 10 no. 1 (Feb. 1983), page 151-166.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/10 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study determined whether young children are sensitive to the contextual influence of previous discourse on judgements of the adequacy of referential communications. Four- and six-year-old children were read short stories containing terminal referential communications that were either ambiguous or informative relative to a perceptual display of candidate-referential objects. Contextual information was given in the story prior to the terminal communication that was irrelevant to the ambiguous communications or that made these communications functionally informative. The subjects were required to say whether the listener in the story could identify one unique referent. The results showed that the judgements of both groups of children were sensitive to the discourse content of the communications. The children discriminated between the functionally informative and ambiguous communications.

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