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The Use of Linguistic Cues in Sentence Comprehension by Mandarin-Speaking Children with High-Functioning Autism
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Zhou, Peng; Crain, Stephen; Gao, Liqun; Jia, Meixiang – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
Two studies were conducted to investigate how high-functioning children with autism use different linguistic cues in sentence comprehension. Two types of linguistic cues were investigated: word order and morphosyntactic cues. The results show that children with autism can use both types of cues in sentence comprehension. However, compared to…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Cues
"Whatdunit?" Sentence Comprehension Abilities of Children with SLI: Sensitivity to Word Order in Canonical and Noncanonical Structures
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Montgomery, James W.; Gillam, Ronald B.; Evans, Julia L.; Sergeev, Alexander V. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: With Aim 1, we compared the comprehension of and sensitivity to canonical and noncanonical word order structures in school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI) and same-age typically developing (TD) children. Aim 2 centered on the developmental improvement of sentence comprehension in the groups. With Aim 3, we compared…
Descriptors: Sentences, Comprehension, Language Impairments, Children
Language and Age Effects in Children's Processing of Word Order
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Candan, Ayse; Kuntay, Aylin C.; Yeh, Ya-ching; Cheung, Hintat; Wagner, Laura; Naigles, Letitia R. – Cognitive Development, 2012
We compare the processing of transitive sentences in young learners of a strict word order language (English) and two languages that allow noun omissions and many variant word orders: Turkish, a case-marked language, and Mandarin Chinese, a non case-marked language. Children aged 1-3 years listened to simple transitive sentences in the typical…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Acquisition, Mandarin Chinese, Word Order
Cue Validity and Sentence Interpretation in English, German, and Italian.
MacWhinney, Brian; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Supports claim that linguistic and psycholinguistic accounts based on study of English may prove unreliable as guides to sentence processing in even closely related languages such as German and Italian. Results of a test of sentence interpretation indicate that English-speaking Americans rely overwhelmingly on word order, Germans rely on both…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, English, German
Parallel Mechanisms of Sentence Processing: Assigning Roles to Constituents of Sentences.
McClelland, James L.; Kawamoto, Alan H. – 1986
This paper describes and illustrates a simulation model for the processing of grammatical elements in a sentence, focusing on one aspect of sentence comprehension: the assignment of the constituent elements of a sentence to the correct thematic case roles. The model addresses questions about sentence processing from a perspective very different…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Computational Linguistics
Processing Strategies in L2 Learners of French: The Role of Transfer.
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Heilenman, L. Kathy; McDonald, Janet L. – Language Learning, 1993
The comprehension processing strategies of 15 monolingual English and 8 bilingual French native speakers were compared with those of 112 second-language learners of French, using stimuli containing word order and clitic pronoun cues in French. Results indicated differential dependence on cue use by native speakers. (Contains 97 references.)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Context Clues, French