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Gertner, Yael; Fisher, Cynthia – Cognition, 2012
Children use syntax to interpret sentences and learn verbs; this is syntactic bootstrapping. The structure-mapping account of early syntactic bootstrapping proposes that a partial representation of sentence structure, the "set of nouns" occurring with the verb, guides initial interpretation and provides an abstract format for new learning. This…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Comprehension, Sentences, Verbs
Barner, David; Inagaki, Shunji; Li, Peggy – Cognition, 2009
We test the claim that acquiring a mass-count language, like English, causes speakers to think differently about entities in the world, relative to speakers of classifier languages like Japanese. We use three tasks to assess this claim: object-substance rating, quantity judgment, and word extension. Using the first two tasks, we present evidence…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Semantics, Nouns, Syntax
Dubey, Amit; Keller, Frank; Sturt, Patrick – Cognition, 2008
Work in experimental psycholinguistics has shown that the processing of coordinate structures is facilitated when the two conjuncts share the same syntactic structure [Frazier, L., Munn, A., & Clifton, C. (2000). "Processing coordinate structures." "Journal of Psycholinguistic Research," 29(4) 343-370]. In the present paper, we argue that this…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Models, English
Shin, Jeong-Ah; Christianson, Kiel – Cognition, 2009
A structural priming experiment investigated whether grammatical encoding in production consists of one or two stages and whether oral bilingual language production is shared at the functional or positional level [Bock, J. K., Levelt, W. (1994). Language production. Grammatical encoding. In M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), "Handbook of psycholinguistics"…
Descriptors: Syntax, Bilingualism, Language Processing, Contrastive Linguistics
Brown-Schmidt, Sarah; Konopka, Agnieszka E. – Cognition, 2008
During unscripted speech, speakers coordinate the formulation of pre-linguistic messages with the linguistic processes that implement those messages into speech. We examine the process of constructing a contextually appropriate message and interfacing that message with utterance planning in English ("the small butterfly") and Spanish ("la mariposa…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Linguistics, Educational Policy, Syntax
Allen, Shanley; Ozyurek, Ash; Kita, Sotaro; Brown, Amanda; Furman, Reyhan; Ishizuka, Tomoko; Fujii, Mihoko – Cognition, 2007
Different languages map semantic elements of spatial relations onto different lexical and syntactic units. These crosslinguistic differences raise important questions for language development in terms of how this variation is learned by children. We investigated how Turkish-, English-, and Japanese-speaking children (mean age 3;8) package the…
Descriptors: Syntax, Children, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Franck, Julie; Lassi, Glenda; Frauenfelder, Ulrich H.; Rizzi, Luigi – Cognition, 2006
This paper links experimental psycholinguistics and theoretical syntax in the study of subject--verb agreement. Three experiments of elicited spoken production making use of specific characteristics of Italian and French are presented. They manipulate and examine its impact on the occurrence of "attraction" errors (i.e. incorrect agreement with a…
Descriptors: Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Word Order

Santelmann, Lynn M.; Jusczyk, Peter W. – Cognition, 1998
Five experiments examined 15- and 18-month olds' sensitivity to morphosyntactic dependencies. Results indicated that 18-month olds, but not 15-month olds, were sensitive to basic relationship between "is" and "-ing" and that 18-month-olds could track relationships between functor morphemes. Findings were consistent with hypothesis that 18-month…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, English, Infant Behavior

Gilboy, Elizabeth; And Others – Cognition, 1995
Three studies investigated Spanish and English readers' interpretations of sentences with complex noun phrases (NPs). In contrast to earlier findings, results provided evidence for cross-language universality of the late closure parsing principle. Results suggest that late closure is not language-specific but specific to only certain classes of…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, English, Language Patterns, Nouns

Gelman, Susan A.; Tardif, Twila – Cognition, 1998
Three studies examined adults' generic noun phrases in English and Mandarin Chinese from child-directed speech of caregivers interacting with their toddlers. Found that generic noun phrases were reliably identified in both languages. Generic noun phrases most frequently referred to animals. Non-generic noun phrases were used most frequently for…
Descriptors: Adults, Caregiver Speech, Child Caregivers, Classification

Gibson, Edward; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Provides new evidence from Spanish and English self-paced reading experiments on relative clause attachment sites. Suggests that a principle like Late Closure is universally operative in the human parser. Proposes that a second factor is the principle of Predicate Proximity. Discusses the origins and predictions of the theory combining these two…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, English, Language Processing, Language Research
Lidz, Jeffrey; Waxman, Sandra – Cognition, 2004
Lidz, Waxman, and Freedman [Lidz, J., Waxman, S., & Freedman, J. (2003). What infants know about syntax but couldn't have learned: Evidence for syntactic structure at 18-months. "Cognition," 89, B65-B73.] argue that acquisition of the syntactic and semantic properties of anaphoric one in English relies on innate knowledge within the learner.…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Stimuli, Infants
Scherag, Andre; Demuth, Lisa; Rosler, Frank; Neville, Helen J.; Roder, Brigitte – Cognition, 2004
It has been hypothesized that some aspects of a second language (L2) might be learned easier than others if a language is learned late. On the other hand, non-use might result in a loss of language skills in one's native, i.e. one's first language (L1) (language attrition). To study which, if any, aspects of language are affected by either late…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Native Speakers, Language Skill Attrition