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ERIC Number: EJ597763
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0277
The Kindergarten-Path Effect: Studying On-Line Sentence Processing in Young Children.
Trueswell, John C.; Sekerina, Irina; Hill, Nicole M.; Logrip, Marian L.
Cognition, v73 n2 p89-134 Dec 7 1999
Used head-mounted eye-tracking system to study kindergartners' and adults' moment-by-moment language processing ability as they responded to spoken instructions. Found that 5-year-olds did not take into account relevant discourse/pragmatic principles when resolving temporary syntactic ambiguities and showed little/no ability to revise initial parsing commitments. Adults were sensitive to these discourse constraints at earliest processing and revised incorrect parsing commitments. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Skills, Models, Primary Education, Sentences
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Parsing; Syntactic Processing