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Jessica Ann Kotfila – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Syntactic movement is central to mainstream generative theories of syntax (Chomsky, 1957; 1981; 1995; 2001). Under this view, sentences contain words that have moved and words that have not. Children only ever hear words in their moved positions so it is unclear how they could determine the ways these constituents must be merged and moved from…
Descriptors: Syntax, Sentences, Word Order, Language Acquisition
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
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Kupisch, Tanja; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit – Journal of Child Language, 2022
We investigate German-Russian bilingual children's sensitivity to formal and semantic cues when assigning gender to nouns in German. Across languages, young children have been shown to primarily rely on phonological cues, whereas sensitivity to semantic and syntactic cues increases with age. With its semi-transparent gender assignment system,…
Descriptors: Phonology, German, Russian, Language Acquisition
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Huang, Yi Ting; Ovans, Zoe – Cognitive Science, 2022
Children often interpret first noun phrases (NP1s) as agents, which improves comprehension of actives but hinders passives. While children sometimes withhold the agent-first bias, the reasons remain unclear. The current study tests the hypothesis that children default to the agent-first bias as a "best guess" of role assignment when they…
Descriptors: Syntax, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Language Processing
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Georgia Andreou; Katerina Raxioni – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Objectives: The purpose of this article is to review research that has been conducted over the past five years on language development, reading skills and word learning with the use of the eye tracking machine as regards the population with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in comparison to typically developed population. Materials and methods: A…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Eye Movements, Language Acquisition
Yu'an Yang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Languages tend to have three major clause types (declaratives, interrogatives, imperatives), dedicated to three main speech acts (assertions, questions, commands). However, the particular forms that these clause types take differ from language to language, and have to be learned. Previous experimental results suggest that by 18 months old,…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Speech Acts, Language Acquisition, English
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Miriam Geiss; Maria F. Ferin; Theo Marinis; Tanja Kupisch – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigates for the first time the comprehension of rhetorical questions (RhQs) in bilingual children. RhQs are non-canonical questions, as they are not used to request information, but to express the speaker's belief that the answer is already obvious. This special pragmatic meaning often arises by means of specific prosodic and…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Italian, Bilingualism, Elementary School Students
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Anna Fiveash; Eniko Ladányi; Julie Camici; Karen Chidiac; Catherine T. Bush; Laure-Hélène Canette; Nathalie Bedoin; Reyna L. Gordon; Barbara Tillmann – npj Science of Learning, 2023
Recently reported links between rhythm and grammar processing have opened new perspectives for using rhythm in clinical interventions for children with developmental language disorder (DLD). Previous research using the rhythmic priming paradigm has shown improved performance on language tasks after regular rhythmic primes compared to control…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Language Impairments, Language Rhythm, Cues
Akari Ohba – ProQuest LLC, 2024
One of the fundamental questions in the field of language acquisition is a learnability problem, which considers how learners acquire certain aspects of language which are not directly provided in the input or whose referents are not readily observable. This dissertation investigates Japanese children's acquisition of various linguistic phenomena,…
Descriptors: Empathy, Verbs, Japanese, Self Concept
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Yuriko Oshima-Takane – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Using a habituation paradigm with a three-switch design, the present study investigated whether 20-month-old French-learning infants use noun and verb morphosyntactic cues to learn novel words in dynamic events differentially when both the agent and the action interpretations are possible. Of particular interest was whether infants' initial…
Descriptors: Infants, Nouns, Verbs, Language Usage
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Pintér, Lilla; Surányi, Balázs – First Language, 2023
Previous research has uncovered that, despite the omnipresence of focus in utterances, children typically do not compute the exhaustivity inference associated with cleft(-like) syntactic focus constructions at adult-like levels before 7 years of age. Children's comparable limitations with lexically triggered scalar implicatures, inferences with an…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Accuracy
Charlotte Moore – ProQuest LLC, 2021
When learning a language, typically-developing infants face the daunting task of learning both the sounds and the meanings of words. In this dissertation, we focus on a source of variability that complicates the one-to-one relationship between words and their meanings: wordform variability. In Chapter 1 we make a distinction between the micro…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Variation
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Tagliani, Marta; Vender, Maria; Melloni, Chiara – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
Italian relative clauses like "Il bambino che bacia la mamma" 'the child that kisses the mom' are ambiguous between a subject reading and an object reading with postverbal subject. However, the latter is scarcely accessible for word order and theory-internal considerations. This study aims at investigating the role of semantic…
Descriptors: Italian, Language Acquisition, Knowledge Level, Phrase Structure
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Kline, Melissa; Snedeker, Jesse; Schulz, Laura – Language Learning and Development, 2017
How do children map linguistic representations onto the conceptual structures that they encode? In the present studies, we provided 3-4-year-old children with minimal-pair scene contrasts in order to determine the effect of particular event properties on novel verb learning. Specifically, we tested whether spatiotemporal cues to causation also…
Descriptors: Cues, Children, Verbs, Spatial Ability
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Kover, Sara T. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2018
Purpose: In typical development, distributional cues--patterns in input--are related to language acquisition processes. Statistical and implicit learning refer to the utilization of such cues. In children with intellectual disability, much less is known about the extent to which distributional cues are harnessed in mechanisms of language learning.…
Descriptors: Cues, Language Acquisition, Intellectual Disability, Linguistic Input
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