Title

The Child as Informant: Eliciting Linguistic Intuitions from Young Children

Authors

Dana McDaniel, University of Southern MaineFollow
Helen Cairns

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1990

Publication Title

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Abstract

An interview technique was developed to elicit judgments from young children about the well-formedness & referential properties of sentences. Judgments are compared with act-out responses of a group of children aged 3:9-5:4 (N = 20). It is argued that judgment data are more revealing of children's grammars than are traditional performance tasks.

Comments

http://link.springer.com/journal/10936

Recommended Citation

McDaniel, Dana, and Helen Cairns. "The Child as Informant: Eliciting Linguistic Intuitions from Young Children." Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1990, Vol. 19, no 5, pp. 331-44.