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van Heugten, Marieke; Johnson, Elizabeth K. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
This study examines the link between distributional patterns in the input and infants' acquisition of non-adjacent dependencies. In two Headturn Preference experiments, Dutch-learning 24-month-olds (but not 17-month-olds) were found to track the remote dependency between the definite article "het" and the diminutive suffix…
Descriptors: Grammar, Infants, Probability, Language Processing
Velan, Hadas; Frost, Ram – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
We examined the effects of letter-transposition in Hebrew in three masked-priming experiments. Hebrew, like English has an alphabetic orthography where sequential and contiguous letter strings represent phonemes. However, being a Semitic language it has a non-concatenated morphology that is based on root derivations. Experiment 1 showed that…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Phonemes, Morphemes, Inhibition
Badecker, William; Kuminiak, Frantisek – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
The experimental studies presented in this paper exploit agreement attraction in order to examine the mechanisms underlying the production of subject-verb agreement in Slovak. Our experiments verify that the processes which specify the gender feature on past tense verbs are subject to interference from local nouns, and that the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Memory, Foreign Countries, Sentences
Moxey, Linda M.; Sanford, Anthony J.; Sturt, Patrick; Morrow, Lorna I. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
This paper examines the use of singular and plural pronominal references to split antecedents such as "John and Mary." Current opinion suggests that under the right circumstances, singular reference should be difficult, and plural reference facilitated, but currently only the first of the these predictions has been demonstrated. We report four…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Predictor Variables, Experiments, Morphemes