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Ziqi Wang; Xiaolu Yang; Stella Christie; Rushen Shi – First Language, 2025
Children make use of various information in linguistic input to learn verbs, including syntactic distribution and semantic features. Within the intransitive verb class, unaccusative and unergative verbs differ in distribution with respect to word order as well as in semantic features such as telicity. Both the distributional and semantic…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Cues
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Lone Sundahl Olsen; Kristine Jensen de López – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Research on the grammatical characteristics of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) across languages has challenged accounts about the nature of DLD. Studies of the characteristics of DLD in different languages can reveal which components of DLD emerge irrespective of language and which components are language specific.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Language Impairments, Grammar
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Evan Kidd; Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez; Sasha Wilmoth; Javier E. Garrido Guillén; Rachel Nordlinger – Cognitive Science, 2025
Sentence production is a stage-like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus must necessarily influence sentence production, psycholinguistic studies of diverse languages are comparatively rare. Here, we present data from a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Processing, Eye Movements, Word Order