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Messenger, Katherine; Yuan, Sylvia; Fisher, Cynthia – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Children recruit verb syntax to guide verb interpretation. We asked whether 22-month-olds spontaneously encode information about a particular novel verb's syntactic properties through listening to sentences, retain this information in long-term memory over a filled delay, and retrieve it to guide interpretation upon hearing the same novel verb…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
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Trehub, Sandra E.; Henderson, Joanna L. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (a parent-report measure of vocabulary and syntax) was administered to 103 children (mean age 103 months) who participated in a study of temporal resolution as infants. Children who had performed above the median on the temporal resolution task demonstrated better later language development than…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Followup Studies, Infants