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Relative clause comprehension revisited: commentary on Eisenberg (2002)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2003

EVAN KIDD
EVAN KIDD
Affiliation:
Max Planck Child Study Centre, University of Manchester
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Abstract

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Eisenberg (2002) presents data from an experiment investigating three- and four-year-old children's comprehension of restrictive relative clauses (RC). From the results she argues, contrary to Hamburger & Crain (1982), that children do not have discourse knowledge of the felicity conditions of RCs before acquiring the syntax of relativization. This note evaluates this conclusion on the basis of the methodology used, and proposes that an account of syntactic development needs to be sensitive to the real-time processing requirements acquisition places on the learner.

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Note
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , August 2003 , pp. 671 - 679
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

Footnotes

I would like to thank Edith L. Bavin for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. Remaining errors are my own.