Journal article
Child judgments of sentences varying in grammatical complexity
Abstract
This study is another contribution to the development of a satisfactory child version of the linguistic task of judging grammaticality. With a nondifferentially reinforced forced-choice procedure, it was found that responses of 24 5- and 24 7-yr-old children did vary as a function of the grammatical complexity of stimulus sentences. The children judged sentence stimuli of two types (negatives and wh-word questions) each having three levels of …
Authors
Scholl DM; Ryan EB
Journal
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 274–285
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
October 1975
DOI
10.1016/0022-0965(75)90103-4
ISSN
0022-0965