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 presented...
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Informa UK Limited
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112930 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9095-0680 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6855-0314 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6290-1160 |