The Competition Between Processing and Discourse-Pragmatic Factors in Children's and Adults' Production of Adverbial When-Clauses.
Purpose: This is the first study to investigate the combined effects of processing-based factors (i.e., clause length and clause order) and discourse-pragmatic factors (i.e., information structure) on children's and adults' production of adverbial when-clauses. Method: In a sentence repetition task,...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 66; no. 12; pp. 5048 - 5061 |
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