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Direct linkVolpato, Francesca – First Language, 2020
Verbal working memory resources may impact syntax comprehension. Thirteen Italian children with cochlear implants (CIs) were assessed in relative clause (RC) comprehension, digit span and nonword repetition and compared to 13 chronological age peers (CA) and 13 younger controls (LA) with normal hearing (NH). The RC comprehension task tested…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Short Term Memory, Assistive Technology, Prediction
Do Adults Show an Effect of Delayed First Language Acquisition When Calculating Scalar Implicatures?
Davidson, Kathryn; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2015
Language acquisition involves learning not only grammatical rules and a lexicon but also what people are intending to convey with their utterances: the semantic/pragmatic component of language. In this article we separate the contributions of linguistic development and cognitive maturity to the acquisition of the semantic/pragmatic component of…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Semantics, Pragmatics, Deafness
Berent, Gerald P.; Kelly, Ronald R.; Schueler-Choukairi, Tanya – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
English sentences containing the universal quantifiers "each", "every", and "all" are highly complex structures in view of the subtleties of their scope properties and resulting ambiguities. This study explored the acquisition of universal quantifier sentences as reflected in the performance of three diverse college-level student groups on a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Nouns, Deafness
