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Bartlett, Elsa Jaffe – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Investigates extent to which certain co-referential and structural constraints are reflected in the anaphoric noun phrases of written narratives of elementary school writers. Results indicate that poor writers are relatively insensitive to the constraints of the more difficult co-referential context, but that they (poor writers) are as sensitive…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Students