Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 1 |
Descriptor
| Adults | 1 |
| Ambiguity (Semantics) | 1 |
| Children | 1 |
| Contrastive Linguistics | 1 |
| English | 1 |
| Error Correction | 1 |
| French | 1 |
| Language Acquisition | 1 |
| Language Processing | 1 |
| Phrase Structure | 1 |
| Preferences | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Language Acquisition: A… | 1 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
| Tests/Questionnaires | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkYacovone, Anthony; Rigby, Ian; Omaki, Akira – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2020
Children's sentence interpretations often lack flexibility. For example, when French-speaking adults and children hear ambiguous "wh"-questions like "Where did Annie explain that she rode her horse?", they preferentially associate the "wh"-phrase with the first verb and adopt the main clause interpretation (e.g.,…
Descriptors: French, Phrase Structure, Language Acquisition, Verbs
