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SUMMARY:Which factors influence sentence continuation in children? - Maria
  Teresa Guasti (University of Milan Bicocca)
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CONTACT:George Walkden
DESCRIPTION:A sentence continuation task was employed to determine how Ita
 lian speakers (ten four-year-olds\, eleven five-year-olds\, nine six-year-
 olds\, and ten adults) interpret contrastive stress in order to decide whi
 ch referent is more salient in a sentence\, and thus more likely to be con
 tinued as the subject of a subsequent utterance. Participants as young as 
 five years of age showed the tendency to mention next\, as the subject of 
 their sentence continuations\, the referent that received contrastive stre
 ss in the previous utterance. Conversely\, four-year-olds did not appear t
 o rely on contrastive stress in order to decide which referent to mention 
 next. These findings suggest that sensitivity to contrastive stress evolve
 s with age and developmental changes occur between the age of four and six
  years of age.
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