Publications

Publication details [#1143]

Bates, Elizabeth, Brian MacWhinney, Cristina Caselli, Antonella Devescovi, Francesco Natale and Valeria Venza. 1984. A cross-linguistic study of the development of sentence interpretation strategies. Child Development 55 : 341–354.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

comprehension, L1-acquisition of | syntactic universal

Language as a subject

English, L1-acquisition of | Italian, L1-acquisition of

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/cdev

Annotation

A comparison of sentence interpretation in American and Italian children, in which claims regarding the existence of universal hypotheses about language structure are not supported.