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Foltz, Anouschka; Thiele, Kristina; Kahsnitz, Dunja; Stenneken, Prisca – Journal of Child Language, 2015
This study examines whether lexical repetition, syntactic skills, and working memory (WM) affect children's syntactic-priming behavior, i.e. their tendency to adopt previously encountered syntactic structures. Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children were primed with prenominal (e.g. "the yellow…
Descriptors: Child Language, Syntax, Priming, Lexicology
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Crain, Stephen; Thornton, Rosalind; Murasugi, Keiko – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2009
In the 1980s, researchers in child language devised several new experimental techniques to assess children's emerging linguistic competence. Innovations in methodology were needed to bridge the apparent gap between the expectation of rapid language acquisition, based on linguistic theory, and the protracted acquisition that was being witnessed…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Linguistics, Child Language, Language Acquisition