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Publication details [#36944]

McDaniel, Dana and Helen Smith Cairns. 1990. The child as informant: Eliciting linguistic intuitions from young children. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 19 (5) : 331–344.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | grammar1 | informing | judgment | reference

Place, Publisher

Plenum Press

ISBN

0090-6905

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This paper proposes an interview technique to elicit young children's judgments regarding sentences' well-formedness and referential properties. Judgment data are considered to reveal more of children's grammars than traditional performance instructions.