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Distributional Learning of Syntactic Generalizations
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Daoxin Li – ProQuest LLC, 2024
During language acquisition, children are tasked with the challenge of determining which words can appear in which syntactic constructions. This has been long recognized as a learnability paradox. On one hand, there are generalizations that children must learn. On the other hand, language is known for its arbitrariness, so children also need to…
Descriptors: Generalization, Language Acquisition, Syntax, Word Recognition
Evaluation of a Complexity-Based Morphosyntactic Treatment for Children with Language Disorders of Mixed Etiologies
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Kirsten Michelle Hannig Russell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Language disorder is characterized by difficulty with the comprehension and production of different aspects of language. School-aged children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and school-aged children with Down syndrome (DS) demonstrate similar deficits in the area of morphosyntax, which often creates barriers during social interactions…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Intervention, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Young Children Fail to Fully Generalize a Novel Argument Structure Construction when Exposed to the Same Input as Older Learners
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Boyd, Jeremy K.; Goldberg, Adele E. – Journal of Child Language, 2012
The present study exposed five-year-olds (M=5 ; 2), seven-year-olds (M=7 ; 6) and adults (M=22 ; 4) to instances of a novel phrasal construction, then used a forced choice comprehension task to evaluate their learning of the construction. The abstractness of participants' acquired representations of the novel construction was evaluated by varying…
Descriptors: Verbs, Generalization, Linguistic Input, Young Children
Neural Correlates of Foreign-Language Learning in Childhood: A 3-Year Longitudinal ERP Study
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Ojima, Shiro; Nakamura, Naoko; Matsuba-Kurita, Hiroko; Hoshino, Takahiro; Hagiwara, Hiroko – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
A foreign language (a language not spoken in one's community) is difficult to master completely. Early introduction of foreign-language (FL) education during childhood is becoming a standard in many countries. However, the neural process of child FL learning still remains largely unknown. We longitudinally followed 322 school-age children with…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Children, Developmental Stages
Learning How to License Null Noun-Class Prefixes in Sesotho
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Demuth, Katherine; Machobane, Malillo; Moloi, Francina – Language, 2009
Noun-class prefixes are obligatory in most Bantu languages. However, the Sotho languages (Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi) permit a subset of prefixes to be realized as null at the intersection of "unmarked" phonological, syntactic, and discourse conditions. This raises the question of how and when the licensing of null prefixes is learned. Using…
Descriptors: Nouns, Language Acquisition, African Languages, Morphemes
Evidence of Linguistic Interactions in Intervention.
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Tyler, Ann A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Reviews studies investigating the indirect effects of language interventions on phonology and of phonological intervention on morphosyntax. Results of the review indicate that there is greater evidence to support facilitatory effects of phonological intervention on morphosyntactic performance, especially for children with severe impairments in…
Descriptors: Children, Generalization, Intervention, Language Impairments