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Children Do Not Overcome Lexical Biases Where Adults Do: The Role of the Referential Scene in Garden-Path Recovery
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Kidd, Evan; Stewart, Andrew J.; Serratrice, Ludovica – Journal of Child Language, 2011
In this paper we report on a visual world eye-tracking experiment that investigated the differing abilities of adults and children to use referential scene information during reanalysis to overcome lexical biases during sentence processing. The results showed that adults incorporated aspects of the referential scene into their parse as soon as it…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Language Processing, Eye Movements
The Input Ambiguity Hypothesis and Case Blindness: An Account of Cross-Linguistic and Intra-Linguistic Differences in Case Errors
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Pelham, Sabra D. – Journal of Child Language, 2011
English-acquiring children frequently make pronoun case errors, while German-acquiring children rarely do. Nonetheless, German-acquiring children frequently make article case errors. It is proposed that when child-directed speech contains a high percentage of case-ambiguous forms, case errors are common in child language; when percentages are low,…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Input, Figurative Language, Child Language