Preschoolers’ interpretation of habitual and deontic conditionals: a delayed mapping between concept and language
By investigating Dutch children’s interpretation habitual and deontic conditionals, this paper explores their mapping of the concepts of hypotheticality and conditionality into a corresponding linguistic form of IF-conditionals. Results of 46 children (20 girls; age range = 3;11-6;00; mean = 4;11) in a truth value judgment task with three types of stimuli, i.e. habitual conditionals, deontic conditionals, and conjunctive/additive constructions, show the following. First, the preschoolers do not exhibit different interpretation performances with the two types of conditional stimuli and the conj... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development (2020) |
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Science-res Publishing
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Schlagwörter: | Conditional constructions / conditionality / Dutch / hypotheticality / truth value judgment task / Special aspects of education / LC8-6691 / Language acquisition / P118-118.7 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27409184 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doaj.org/article/e7fcd38eccd74fec8ab5417ab5b91cd0 |