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Direct linkFrizelle, Pauline; Thompson, Paul; Duta, Mihaela; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Language Learning, 2019
We examined the effect of two methods of assessment--multiple-choice sentence-picture matching and an animated sentence-verification task--on typically developing children's understanding of relative clauses. A sample of children between the ages of 3 years 6 months and 4 years 11 months took part in the study (N = 103). Results indicated that (a)…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Testing, Syntax, Comparative Analysis
Havron, Naomi; Babineau, Mireille; Fiévet, Anne-Caroline; de Carvalho, Alex; Christophe, Anne – Language Learning, 2021
A previous study has shown that children use recent input to adapt their syntactic predictions and use these adapted predictions to infer the meaning of novel words. In the current study, we investigated whether children could use this mechanism to disambiguate words whose interpretation as a noun or a verb is ambiguous. We tested 2- to 4-year-old…
Descriptors: Syntax, Prediction, Linguistic Input, Inferences
