Abstract
JAMES, SHARON L., and MILLER, JON F. Children's Awareness of Semantic Constraints in Sentences. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1973, 44, 69-76. Children's awareness of selection restriction rules in sentences was investigated in 2 groups of children, 4-8 to 5-3 years and 6-8 to 7-3 years of age. The 32 children were asked to identify anomalous and meaningful sentences as either silly or okay. Information about the Ss' use of selection restriction rules was acquired by having them convert the anomalous sentences into meaningful ones. Analysis of the Ss' responses on the 2 tasks indicates that both 5and 7-year-old children are capable of distinguishing between anomalous and meaningful sentences although 7-year-olds demonstrate greater awareness of selection restriction rules. 7-year-old children are more proficient than 5-year-olds at using selection restriction rules in sentence production.
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