The aim of the present study was to investigate the acquisition of ditransitive structures beyond production. We conducted an elicitation task (production) and a picture-sentence matching task measuring accuracy and response times (comprehension). We examined German five-to seven-year-old typically developing children and an adult control group. Our data showed quasi-perfect performance in comprehension in adults and in those children who had already mastered ditransitives productively. However, children who had not yet mastered the production of ditransitives showed comprehension abilities preceding production abilities. Unlike adults, in the comprehension task children did not react explicitly before the end of the auditory stimulus.

本研究的目的是调查生产之外的双及物结构的习得。我们进行了一个启发任务（生产）和一个图片-句子匹配任务测量准确性和响应时间（理解）。我们检查了德国 5 至 7 岁的正常发育儿童和成人对照组。我们的数据显示成人和那些已经有效掌握双及物的儿童在理解方面的表现接近完美。然而，尚未掌握双及物产生的儿童表现出理解能力先于产生能力。与成人不同，在理解任务中，儿童在听觉刺激结束前没有做出明确的反应。