The on-line interpretation of pronouns and repeated names in seven-year-old children
Seven-year-old children performed a cross-modal naming task, in order to investigate the on-line interpretation of subject pronouns and repeated names. Children had to listen to short texts containing two sentences and to read a visual probe which represented the last word of the second sentence. Th...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cpl, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Current psychology letters
2009
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | Seven-year-old children performed a cross-modal naming task, in order to investigate the on-line interpretation of subject pronouns and repeated names. Children had to listen to short texts containing two sentences and to read a visual probe which represented the last word of the second sentence. This second sentence began with a subject anaphor which was either a pronoun or a repeated name, and referred either to the subject referent (Subject-Subject condition), or to the object referent (Object-Subject condition) of the first sentence. In agreement with the repeated name penalty predicted from the Gordon and Hendrick’s model (1998) developed for adults, children showed faster naming times for pronouns than for repeated names in Subject-Subject condition, whereas they showed similar naming times to solve pronouns and repeated names in Object-Subject condition. These results suggest that children interpret on-line the pronoun as a specific marker of referential continuity. |
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