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Direct linkGennari, Silvia P.; MacDonald, Maryellen C. – Language Acquisition, 2006
Inspired by adult models of language production and comprehension, we investigate whether children's nonadult interpretation of ambiguous negative quantified sentences reflects their sensitivity to distributional patterns of language use. Studies 1 and 2 show that ambiguous negative quantified sentences of the sort typically used in acquisition…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Adults, Models, Reading Comprehension
de Hoop, Helen; Kramer, Irene – Language Acquisition, 2006
We find a general, language-independent pattern in child language acquisition in which there is a clear difference between subject and object noun phrases. On one hand, indefinite objects tend to be interpreted nonreferentially, independently of word order and across experiments and languages. On the other hand, indefinite subjects tend to be…
Descriptors: Word Order, Nouns, Child Language, Language Acquisition
