|
|||||
|
|
The child as informant: Eliciting linguistic intuitions from young children |
|
| Authors: | Dana McDaniel Helen Smith Cairns |
| Affiliation: | (1) The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, USA;(2) The Graduate Center of CUNY, USA;(3) Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, Queens College, The City University of New York, G-100, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, 11367-0904 Flushing, New York |
| Abstract: | In this paper we report an interview technique we have developed to elicit judgments from young children about the well-formedness and referential properties of sentences. Judgments are compared with act-out responses of a group of 20 children ranging in age from 3 years 9 months to 5 years 4 months. We argue that judgment data are more revealing of children's grammars than are traditional performance tasks. |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录！ | |