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An auditory comprehension task was employed to determine how subjects (20 first graders, 20 fifth graders, and 20 adults) use topic continuity and contrastive emphasis in the assignment of referents for pronouns in sentences. Significant differences in performance for emphasized and unemphasized pronoun...
English determiners (also known as determinatives) are words –such as the, a, each, some, which, this, and six– that are most commonly used with nouns to specify their referents. What are determiners with examples? Determiners includearticles (a, an, the), cardinal numbers (one, two, ...
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Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, USAJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdDevelopmental ScienceSaylor, M. M., Ganea, P. A., & Vazquez, M. D. (2011). What's mine is mine: Twelve-month-olds use posses- sive pronouns to identify referents. Developmental Science, 14,...