Syntactic and Pragmatic Factors in Children's Comprehension of Cleft Constructions
We present a series of experiments investigating English-speaking children's comprehension of it-clefts and wh-pseudoclefts. Previous developmental work has found children to have asymmetric difficulties interpreting object clefts. We show that these difficulties disappear when clefts are prese...
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| Language: | English |
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Informa UK Limited,
2017-12-22T15:06:54Z.
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