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Narasimhan, Bhuvana; Dimroth, Christine – Cognition, 2008
In expressing rich, multi-dimensional thought in language, speakers are influenced by a range of factors that influence the ordering of utterance constituents. A fundamental principle that guides constituent ordering in adults has to do with information status, the accessibility of referents in discourse. Typically, adults order previously…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Child Language, Caregivers
Conwell, Erin; Demuth, Katherine – Cognition, 2007
The abstractness of children's early syntactic representations has been questioned in the recent acquisition literature. While some research has suggested that children's knowledge of basic constructions such as the transitive is robust and abstract at a very young age, other work has proposed that young children only have constructions that are…
Descriptors: Young Children, Sentences, Language Acquisition, Syntax