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Studies examining productive syntax have used varying elicitation methods and have tended to focus on either young children or adolescents/adults, so we lack an account of syntactic development throughout middle childhood. We describe here the results of an analysis of clause complexity in narratives produced by 354 speakers aged from four years to adulthood using the Expressive, Receptive, and Recall of Narrative Instrument (ERRNI). We show that the number of clauses per utterance increased ...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1017/S0305000918000144
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- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Child Language Journal website
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 1174-1197
- Publication date:
- 2018-06-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-03-14
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1469-7602
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0305-0009
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pubs:831777
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uri:d475a115-1bd3-4b9f-8d57-b7fe399ac8cd
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- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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Copyright © 2018 Cambridge University Press. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000918000144
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Growth in syntactic complexity between four years and adulthood: evidence from a narrative task
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