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de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine; Grimm, Scott; Arnon, Inbal; Kirby, Susannah; Bresnan, Joan – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Focusing on children's production of the dative alternation in English, we examine whether children's choices are influenced by the same factors that influence adults' choices, and whether, like adults, they are sensitive to multiple factors simultaneously. We do so by using mixed-effect regression models to analyse child and child-directed…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Child Language, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
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Kas, Bence; Lukacs, Agnes – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Hungarian is a language with morphological case marking and relatively free word order. These typological characteristics make it a good ground for testing the crosslinguistic validity of theories on processing sentences with relative clauses. Our study focused on effects of structural factors and processing capacity. We tested 43 typically…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Short Term Memory, Language Processing