caa a22 4500 386359628 CHVBK 20180307111911.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900010758 doi S0305000900010758 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900010758 Contextual information and temporal terms [Elektronische Daten] We report an experiment designed to identify how contextual information can influence children's performance on an experimental task involving temporal terms. Grain (1982) reported improved performance on a comprehension task when subjects were provided with contextual information, and he suggested that the improvement was due to satisfaction of presuppositions. However, this contextual information might have served to simplify task demands by providing prior information concerning an important aspect of the task. The present study distinguishes these factors by incorporating contextual information into the subordinate clause of the test sentences in a comprehension experiment (to satisfy presupposions) or into the main clause (to provide comparable prior information without satisfying presuppositions). We conclude that contextual information results in a significant improvement only when such information can be used to satisfy presuppositions. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Gorrell Paul University of Maryland Crain Stephen University of Connecticut Fodor Janet Dean City University of New York Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/3(1989-10), 623-632 0305-0009 16:3<623 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010758 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010758 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gorrell Paul University of Maryland NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crain Stephen University of Connecticut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fodor Janet Dean City University of New York NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/3(1989-10), 623-632 0305-0009 16:3<623 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge