A naturalistic study of the production of causal connectives by children  

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McCabe, Allyssa ; Peterson, Carole

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 12 no. 1 (Feb. 1985), page 145-160.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/12 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This study analysed the naturalistic productions of because and so by 96 children, aged 3; 6-9; 6, while narrating real, personal events. Few semantic errors could be construed as evidence of confused thinking; none is a confusion described by Piaget. Of the semantically correct causal uses, 81 % encode psychological causality, mostly statements of other people's intentions. Other analyses revealed: (I) many of the relationships encoded are highly predictable, (2) virtually all causality occurred prior to the time of narration, (3) age trends are remarkably absent, (4) because and so are used in significantly different ways even by the youngest children, (5) only eight sentences showed a reversal of the appropriate order of cause and effect. The discrepancy between the last finding and many other laboratory studies which find many such reversals may be due to the fact that children are causally linking strictly successive events only 32 % of the time; for the rest, they are encoding events that partially or completely overlap in time.

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