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Young Children Use Shared Experience to Interpret Definite Reference
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Schmerse, Daniel; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2015
We investigated whether children at the ages of two and three years understand that a speaker's use of the definite article specifies a referent that is in common ground between speaker and listener. An experimenter and a child engaged in joint actions in which the experimenter chose one of three similar objects of the same category to perform an…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Language, Form Classes (Languages), Child Development