Young Children's Comprehension of Temporal Relations in Complex Sentences: The Influence of Memory on Performance.
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SUBMITTER: Blything LP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4975597 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov-Dec
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Young Children's Comprehension of Temporal Relations in Complex Sentences: The Influence of Memory on Performance.
Blything Liam P LP Davies Robert R Cain Kate K
Child development 20150826 6
The present study investigated 3- to 7-year-olds' (N = 91) comprehension of two-clause sentences containing the temporal connectives before or after. The youngest children used an order of mention strategy to interpret the relation between clauses: They were more accurate when the presentation order matched the chronological order of events: "He ate his lunch, before he played in the garden" (chronological) versus "Before he played in the garden, he ate his lunch" (reverse). Between 4 and 6 year ...[more]
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