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Developmental differences in visual and auditory processing of complex sentences.

J R Booth1, B MacWhinney, Y Harasaki

  • 1Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3560, USA. j-booth@nwu.edu

Child Development
|October 4, 2000
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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Child Development
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Understanding how children process complex sentence structures is crucial for educational development.
  • Relative clauses and conjoined verb phrases pose significant challenges in language comprehension.
  • Memory span influences sentence processing strategies in developing minds.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate on-line and off-line sentence processing in children aged 8-11.
  • To examine the role of memory span in processing restrictive relative clauses.
  • To identify comprehension strategies used by children with varying memory spans and comprehension abilities.

Main Methods:

  • A word-by-word sentence task was administered in visual and auditory modes to 250 children (ages 8-11).

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  • Sentences included object relative clauses, subject relative clauses, or conjoined verb phrases.
  • Participants completed digit span and reading span memory tests, followed by true-false comprehension questions.

    • Main Results:

    • Children with higher digit spans showed increased processing time at relative clause transitions, suggesting a U-shaped learning curve.
    • Poor comprehenders employed an incorrect local attachment strategy, misidentifying sentence subjects.
    • This local attachment strategy was less consistent in low memory span children and with more difficult sentences.

    Conclusions:

    • Children's processing of restrictive relative clauses may follow a U-shaped learning pattern.
    • Comprehension difficulties in children can stem from specific syntactic processing strategies, like local attachment.
    • Memory span and sentence complexity interact with comprehension strategies in developing readers.