Structural characteristics of clause-containing sentences and imitation by children and adults
- 1 January 1973
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
- Vol. 2 (2) , 115-127
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01067205
Abstract
Children of ages 4, 6, and 8 years and college students attempted to imitate sentences containing combinations of nested and self-embedded relative clauses. Asymmetries in performance predicted from extensions of previous research were obtained at all ages. The hypothesis that these differences might be attributable to two structural characteristics of clause-containing sentences was supported by correlational analyses.Keywords
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