Comprehension of exhaustive wh-questions of typically developing preschool children

dc.creator	Vuksanović Jasmina
dc.creator	Avramović-Ilić Irena
dc.creator	Bjekić Jovana
dc.date	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:15:14Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:15:14Z
dc.identifier	10.2298/ZIPI1202368V
dc.identifier	0579-6431
dc.identifier	1820-9270
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/cc8eab74e48c452a89309ca9dbd5aa54
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/17493
dc.description	Wh-questions are among the most important and the most frequent types of utterance, which presumably reflects the role of questions in everyday life in gathering various types of information. There is a limited body of research on the exhaustivity comprehension in multiple wh-questions in children (such as, for example, Who drives what, Who gives something to whom?). However, previous results suggest that exhaustivity emerges at the age of four, although there is considerable variability depending on the language. In this paper two aims were proposed: first, to explore when typically developing Serbian speaking monolingual children comprehend exhaustivity property within multiple wh-questions, and, second, cognitive relevancy of structural complexity of multiple wh-questions. 40 typically developing Serbian speaking monolingual children subdivided in three age groups from 3,6 - 7,1 years participated in this study. The question-after-picture test, which consists of 20 tasks with pre-vocabulary check, was used. The tasks were classified according to complexity index into paired and triple wh-questions. Results indicate that children acquire comprehension of exhaustive wh-questions gradually, first in paired wh-questions and then in triple wh-questions. The research provides data on language development, and also offers guidelines for diagnostic and clinical work with children with specific language impairment.
dc.language	Serbian
dc.publisher	Institut za pedagoška istraživanja
dc.relation	http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2012/0579-64311202368V.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/0579-6431
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1820-9270
dc.source	Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoška Istraživanja, Vol 44, Iss 2, Pp 368-384 (2012)
dc.subject	monolingual children
dc.subject	typical development
dc.subject	exhaustive wh-questions
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Comprehension of exhaustive wh-questions of typically developing preschool children
dc.type	article