Children's Comprehension of Complex Sentences.

Harris, Richard J.

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Children's Comprehension of Complex Sentences

Harris, Richard J.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 19, 3, 420-433, Jun 75

Children, aged 4-12, performed four tasks designed to test their comprehension of complex sentences that contained main verbs taking underlying sentences as their complements. Tasks involved imperatives, semantic anomalies, truth questioning and short-term memory. (JMB)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Language Research, Linguistics, Sentence Structure

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