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ERIC Number: EJ251423
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1981-Oct
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Inference and Children's Comprehension of Pronouns.
Wykes, Til
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v32 n2 p264-78 Oct 1981
Investigated five-year-olds' abilities to determine the reference of anaphoric pronouns. Children had difficulty when a sentence contained more than one pronoun, especially when assigning the reference of a pronoun requiring an inference. The children's difficulties stemmed from forgetting premise information and from having problems in carrying out inferences. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten Children, Primary Education, Pronouns, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Sentence Structure, Syntax
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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