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Friedmann, Naama; Aram, Dorit; Novogrodsky, Rama – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
Definitions that children provide can be a valuable measure of their syntax, and specifically, of their ability to produce relative clauses. This research explored the acquisition of subject, object, and indirect object relative clauses in 121 Hebrew-speaking children aged 3 years, 5 months to 8 years, 6 months (3;5-8;6). The children were asked…
Descriptors: Age, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Definitions
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Yang, Pi-Lan; Shih, Su-Chin – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
Using a self-paced reading task, the study aimed to investigate (a) whether English learners in Taiwan immediately resolve main verb versus reduced relative clause ambiguities in a similar way as native English speakers and (b) whether the learners at various English proficiency levels show diverse profiles. With analyses and syntheses of reading…
Descriptors: Verbs, Phrase Structure, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Jackson, Carrie N.; Bobb, Susan C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
Using the self-paced reading paradigm, the present study examines whether highly proficient second language (L2) speakers of German (English first language) use case-marking information during the on-line comprehension of unambiguous "wh"-extractions, even when task demands do not draw explicit attention to this morphosyntactic feature in German.…
Descriptors: German, Native Speakers, Phrase Structure, Reading Strategies
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Reger, Zita – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
Three discourse-related formal aspects of model-imitation pairs were analyzed longitudinally in successive samples from two Hungarian children. Results revealed an unbroken developmental trend leading to lexically coherent conversational replies and that imitation aided the children in learning the lexicon, making phonological approximations of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Grammatical Acceptability, Hungarian