Preschoolers’ interpretation of habitual and deontic conditionals: a delayed mapping between concept and language

By investigating Dutch children’s interpretation habitual and deontic conditionals, this paper explores their mapping of the concepts of hypotheticality and conditionality into a corresponding linguistic form of IF-conditionals. Results of 46 children (20 girls; age range = 3;11-6;00; mean = 4;11)...

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Main Author: Jing Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science-res Publishing 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development
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Online Access:https://www.science-res.com/index.php/jclad/article/view/10