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Canut, Emmanuelle; Jourdain, Morgane; Bocéréan, Christine – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
The goal of this study is to investigate the acquisition of causal relations with parce que "because" and temporal relations with quand "when" by children between age 3 and 5. We aim at identifying whether different discourse type, conversation and narration, allow children to use quand and parce que with different semantic…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, French, Child Language, Syntax
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Haiquan Huang; Hui Cheng; Lina Qian; Yixiong Chen; Peng Zhou – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
"Wh"-words have been analysed as existential quantifiers (Chierchia in Logic in grammar: polarity, free choice, and intervention. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013; Fox, in Sauerland U, Stateva P (eds) Presupposition and implicature in compositional semantics (Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language and cognition). Palgrave…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Prediction
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Villiers, Peter A. de; Villiers, Jill G. de – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1972
Research supported in part by a Public Health Service grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development. (VM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Experiments