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van Heugten, Marieke; Johnson, Elizabeth K. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
This study examines the link between distributional patterns in the input and infants' acquisition of non-adjacent dependencies. In two Headturn Preference experiments, Dutch-learning 24-month-olds (but not 17-month-olds) were found to track the remote dependency between the definite article "het" and the diminutive suffix…
Descriptors: Grammar, Infants, Probability, Language Processing
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Bott, Lewis; Noveck, Ira A. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
When Tarzan asks Jane "Do you like my friends?" and Jane answers "Some of them," her underinformative reply implicates "Not all of them." This "scalar inference" arises when a less-than-maximally informative utterance implies the denial of a more informative proposition. Default Inference accounts (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Models, Inferences, Sentences, Linguistic Theory
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Bonin, Patrick; Barry, Christopher; Meot, Alain; Chalard, Marylene – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
This paper concerns the influence of age of acquisition (AoA) in word reading and other tasks, and attempts to develop a number of issues raised by Zevin and Seidenberg (2002). Analyses performed on both rated and objective measures of AoA show that the frequency trajectory of words is a reliable predictor of their order of acquisition, which…
Descriptors: French, Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Word Recognition