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Gelormini-Lezama, Carlos – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
Anaphoric expressions such as repeated names, overt pronouns, and null pronouns serve a major role in the creation and maintenance of discourse coherence. The felicitous use of an anaphoric expression is highly dependent on the discourse salience of the entity introduced by the antecedent. Gordon et al. ("Cogn Sci" 17:311-347, 1993)…
Descriptors: Spanish, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Language Universals
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Crain, Stephen; Goro, Takuya; Thornton, Rosalind – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
According to the theory of Universal Grammar, the primary linguistic data guides children through an innately specified space of hypotheses. On this view, similarities between child-English and adult-German are as unsurprising as similarities between cousins who have never met. By contrast, experience-based approaches to language acquisition…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech Communication, Language Variation, Child Language