Abstract
The purpose of this research was to study the transition from mono-to bireferential spatial location in children's language. Locative relations are monoreferential when a single referent object is sufficient to establish the place of the primary object, and they are bireferential when two or more referent objects are required. 24 children at age levels 2:5, 3:5, and 4:3 were shown a pair of pictures and given two sentences having a minimal locative contrast, e.g., in/on or in front of/in back of, up to/away from. The children were asked to match one of the sentence alternatives with a picture. Monoreferential locative problems were easier than bireferential ones whether static or dynamic, and the children's capacity to process the locative contrasts improved with age. The transition from mono- to bireferential spatial location in children's language was related to the development of spatial representations.
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