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Young children and the say/mean distinction: verbatim and paraphrase recognition in narrative and nursery rhyme contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2001

ELIZABETH A. LEE ,
NANCY TORRANCE  and
DAVID R. OLSON
ELIZABETH A. LEE
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia
NANCY TORRANCE
Affiliation:
OISE/University of Toronto
DAVID R. OLSON
Affiliation:
OISE/University of Toronto
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Abstract

Children's ability to distinguish between the text, WHAT WAS SAID, and the intentional structure, WHAT WAS MEANT, was interrogated by means of verbatim and paraphrase questions in two types of discourse, narratives and nursery rhymes. Three- to seven-year-olds participated (n = 119, mean age 5·1). There was an interaction between the type of discourse and the younger children's ability to separate wording from intentional structure. In the narrative form they had difficulty rejecting true paraphrases when asked to focus on wording, while in the nursery rhyme form the difficulty was accepting a true paraphrase when asked to focus on intention.

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NOTE
Information
Journal of Child Language , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 531 - 543
Copyright
2001 Cambridge University Press

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