Preschoolers' Preference for Syntactic Complexity Varies by Socioeconomic Status
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Preschoolers' Preference for Syntactic Complexity Varies by Socioeconomic Status.
Two experiments investigated whether 4- and 5-year-old children choose to learn from informants who use more complex syntax (passive voice) over informants using more simple syntax (active voice). In Experiment 1 (N = 30), children viewed one informant who consistently used the passive voice and another who used active voice. When learning novel words from the two informants, children were more...
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عنوان ژورنال: Child Development
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0009-3920
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12553