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Publication details [#4003]

Grieve, Robert, Robert Hoogenraad and Diarmid Murray. 1977. On the young child's use of lexis and syntax in understanding locative instructions. Cognition 5 : 235–250.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
context | instructing1, comprehension of | instructing1, L1-acquisition of | spatial preposition, comprehension of | spatial preposition, L1-acquisition of | syntax1, comprehension of | syntax1, L1-acquisition of | word, comprehension of | word, L1-acquisition of
Language as a subject
English
Journal WWW
www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

The role of the lexis and syntax of the instructions, and of the child's construal of context, in the comprehension of utterances with 'in', 'on', and 'under', is empirically tested.