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Kidd, Evan; Arciuli, Joanne – Child Development, 2016
Variability in children's language acquisition is likely due to a number of cognitive and social variables. The current study investigated whether individual differences in statistical learning (SL), which has been implicated in language acquisition, independently predicted 6- to 8-year-old's comprehension of syntax. Sixty-eight (N = 68)…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Prediction, Syntax, English
Cimpian, Andrei; Meltzer, Trent J.; Markman, Ellen M. – Child Development, 2011
Generic sentences (e.g., "Birds lay eggs") convey generalizations about entire categories and may thus be an important source of knowledge for children. However, these sentences cannot be identified by a simple rule, requiring instead the integration of multiple cues. The present studies focused on 3- to 5-year-olds' (N = 91) use of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Nouns, Morphology (Languages)