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Download full textAdams, Beverly Colwell; Wade, Melissa M. – 1996
A study investigated whether children and adolescents use commas and the principle of Late Closure to guide sentence parsing decisions as adults do in processing syntactically ambiguous sentences. The study consisted of three experiments, conducted similarly but with different subject groups: 24 university students; 24 fourth-graders; and 19…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Ambiguity
