Children's Understanding of Sentences with Contingent Relations: Why Are Temporal and Conditional Connectives so Difficult?.

Amidon, Arlene

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Children's Understanding of Sentences with Contingent Relations: Why Are Temporal and Conditional Connectives so Difficult?

Amidon, Arlene

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 22, 3, 423-437, Dec 76

Children aged 5, 7, and 9 were tested on two different tasks to assess their understanding of sentences containing the connectives "when,""as soon as,""before,""after,""if,""if not,""unless," and "unless not." (Author/SB)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Research, Sentences

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