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ERIC Number: EJ431662
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
Speaking Deductively: Preschoolers' Use of "If" in Conversation and in Conditional Inference.
Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky; Wing, Clara S.
Developmental Psychology, v27 n2 p249-58 Mar 1991
Analyzed "if" sentences in conversations in the homes and preschools of four-year-old children. Parents and teachers used "if" more often than did children. Children and parents did not differ in the proportion of "ifs" that had the linguistic properties of a conditional premise. (BC)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Age Differences, Caregiver Speech, Deduction, Inferences, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Semantics, Syntax
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Causal Inferences; Conditional Clauses; Conditional Logic; Syllogistic Reasoning