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Kayabasi, Demet; Gökgöz, Kadir – Language Learning and Development, 2023
We discuss the causative-inchoative alternation in Turkish Sign Language (Türk Isaret Dili -- TID), and the age of acquisition effects on multi-predicate, complex constructions that are observed in both causative and inchoative events. We present a picture-description task performed by 24 adult signers, half of which were exposed to TID from birth…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Attribution Theory, Pictorial Stimuli, Task Analysis
Shin, Gyu-Ho; Deen, Kamil Ud – Language Learning and Development, 2023
The present study investigates the role of three structural factors ("word order," "case-marking," and "verbal morphology") in the comprehension of the Korean suffixal passive by Korean-speaking children. To measure the relative impact of each factor on the comprehension of the passive, we devise a novel method where…
Descriptors: Korean, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Acoustics
Christine S. Schipke; Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz; Flavia Adani – Language Learning and Development, 2024
This study investigates the interpretation of object-initial sentences in German-speaking children. We addressed the following questions: (1) Which morphosyntactic cues do children deploy to process object-initial sentences? (2) Which executive function (EF) abilities support them during this task? This study examined the effect of case and number…
Descriptors: German, Reading Processes, Sentence Structure, Executive Function
Erin Conwell; Jesse Snedeker – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Natural languages contain systematic relationships between verb meaning and verb argument structure. Artificial language learning studies typically remove those relationships and instead pair verb meanings randomly with structures. Adult participants in such studies can detect statistical regularities associated with words in these languages and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cues, Verbs, Adults
Castroviejo, Elena; Hernández-Conde, José V.; Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra; Ponciano, Marta; Vicente, Agustín – Language Learning and Development, 2023
This paper reports an experiment that investigates interpretive distinctions between two different expressions of generalization in Spanish. In particular, our aim was to find out when the distinction between generic statements (GS) such as "Tigers have stripes" and universally quantified statements (UQS) such as "All tigers have…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Age Groups, Accuracy, Semantics
Nordmeyer, Ann E.; Frank, Michael C. – Language Learning and Development, 2018
Adults find negative sentences difficult to process, but an informative context can facilitate processing substantially, suggesting that much of this difficulty may come from the pragmatics of negation. Are children sensitive to the pragmatics of negation as well? Although children perform poorly on many tests of negation comprehension, we argue…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Acquisition, Sentence Structure, Toddlers
Cournane, Ailís; Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa – Language Learning and Development, 2020
Does language development drive language change? A common account of language change attributes the regularity of certain patterns to children's learning biases. The present study examines these predictions for change-in-progress in the use of "must" in Toronto English. Historically, modal verbs like "must" start with root…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Usage, Verbs, Language Variation