Comprehension of complex sentences containing temporal connectives
How children are led down the event-semantic kindergarten-path
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 20368317 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Christos Makrodimitris (0009-0006-2410-0956, Goethe University Frankfurt), Petra Schulz (0000-0002-6765-6659, Goethe University Frankfurt, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2025 |
| Volumen | 52 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 615-647 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2025-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000924000205 |
| PMID | 38752409 |
| OpenAlex | W4396959471 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 53 |
Children up to school age are known to have difficulty comprehending complex sentences with temporal connectives, but the reasons remain controversial. We tested six- to twelve-year-old children to assess how the iconicity of event-language mapping, type of connective, and clause order mediate the comprehension of temporal sentences. Sixty monolingual Greek-speaking children and 15 adult controls completed a picture-sequence selection task in which they judged after - and before -sentences in iconic and non-iconic order. Up to age twelve, children did not reach full adult-like comprehension of the connectives; performance in non-iconic after -sentences was significantly lower than in the other three conditions across all ages. We conclude that neither iconicity, connective, nor clause order can fully explain these findings and propose an account based on the interaction of iconicity and clause order: non-iconic, sentence-medial after requires revision of the initial event representation, resulting in an event-semantic kindergarten-path that children find difficult to overcome
Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Iconicity · Linguistics · Sentence · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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