The influence of fantastical discourse context on young children’s on-line sentence comprehension

孩子们在故事中遇到许多幻想的事件（例如彼得·潘起飞了）。当学龄前儿童被问及关于故事如何运作的明确问题时，他们表示他们理解小说中的事件可能与他们对现实世界中事件发生方式的了解相矛盾。然而，儿童对明确问题的回答往往与他们对实时事件的解释有很大不同。

Children encounter many fantastical events in stories (e.g. Peter Pan takes off and flies). When preschoolers are asked explicit questions about how stories work, they show their understanding that events in fiction can contradict what they know about the way events happen in the real world. However, children’s answers to explicit questions often differ significantly from their interpretation of events in real time.