Methods for assessing knowledge base

[Elena Nicoladis]

Hello all,
I and my colleagues are interested in knowing about methods used with
preschool children to assess the knowledge that they are accessing to
interpret novel linguistic structures. In adults, this could be done with
priming or by asking adults to think out loud about how they got to their
answer. We suspect these methods would be unreliable with three-year olds.
Are we simply wrong? Or does anyone know of any other means of figuring out
the knowledge children use in interpretation?

If I get multiple responses, I will be happy to collate the answers for the
list.

Thanks in advance for you thoughts,
Cheers,
Elena Nicoladis

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Elena Nicoladis, PhD
Department of Psychology
University of Alberta
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