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Lidz, Jeffrey – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
A fundamental question in psycholinguistics concerns how grammatical structure contributes to real-time sentence parsing and understanding. While many argue that grammatical structure is only loosely related to on-line parsing, others hold the view that the two are tightly linked. Here, I use the incremental growth of grammatical structure in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Decision Making
Elizabeth Huntley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Sociolinguistic variation (SLV) entails that language is affected by social context (i.e. register, pragmatics). Interest in the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in a second language (L2-SLV), as a key component of communicative competence, has grown exponentially over the past thirty years (Geeslin & Long, 2014). Researchers have…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Vocabulary Development
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Hanoon Umarlebbe, Jameela; Binti Mat Said, Seriaznita – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
The first part of this paper discusses the rationale for universal grammar (UG) theory to explain first language acquisition. It also illustrates the issues of language acquisition Chomsky argued which could not be supported by behaviourist theories and shows how Chomsky proposed a solution to this problem through his theoretical model of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Universals, Native Language, Language Acquisition
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Holger Hopp; Jana Reifegerste; Michael T. Ullman – Language Learning, 2025
Second language (L2) grammar learning is difficult. Two frameworks--the psycholinguistic lexical bottleneck hypothesis and the neurocognitive declarative/procedural model--predict that faster L2 lexical processing should facilitate L2 incidental grammar learning. We tested these predictions in a pretest-posttest syntactic adaptation study of…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Grammar
Brian M. Gravely Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The incorporation of empirical and theoretical knowledge from the language acquisition literature into formal diachronic syntax has been largely exiguous despite the growth of the latter as a subfield in formal linguistics over the past thirty years. In this dissertation, it is shown that a greater knowledge of diachronic phenomena, particularly…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Syntax
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Carla Contemori; Claudia Manetti; Federico Piersigilli – First Language, 2025
For children, Object Relative (OR) clauses can be late acquired across a number of languages (e.g., this is the goat that the cows are pushing), and production of non-standard ORs that include resumption is often attested (e.g., Italian; French; English). In addition, starting at age 6, children start adopting passive subject relatives (SRs)…
Descriptors: Italian, Phrase Structure, Language Acquisition, Native Language
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Shin, Gyu-Ho – Cognitive Science, 2021
It has long been believed across languages that the "Agent-First" strategy, a comprehension heuristic that maps the first noun onto the agent role, is a general cognitive bias which applies automatically and faithfully to children's comprehension. The present study asks how this strategy interplays with such grammatical cues as the…
Descriptors: Korean, Acoustics, Grammar, Nouns
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Riches, Nick; Letts, Carolyn; Awad, Hadeel; Ramsey, Rachel; Dabrowska, Ewa – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Collocations, e.g., apples and pears, hard worker, constitute an important avenue of linguistic enquiry straddling both grammar and the lexicon. They are sensitive to language experience, with adult L2 learners and children learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) exhibiting poor collocational knowledge. The current study piloted a novel…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Tchilaia, Ketevani – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
The article, "morphosyntactic peculiarities of the speech of children with Down's syndrome", treats, important aspects of the study of two adjacent branches of linguistics, namely, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics-Language development of the child accompanied by speech disorders, on the other hand, those morphosyntactic features…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Speech Communication, Down Syndrome
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Adger, David – First Language, 2020
The syntactic behaviour of human beings cannot be explained by analogical generalization on the basis of concrete exemplars: analogies in surface form are insufficient to account for human grammatical knowledge, because they fail to hold in situations where they should, and fail to extend in situations where they need to. [For Ben Ambridge's…
Descriptors: Syntax, Figurative Language, Models, Generalization
Shuxiao Gong – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Understanding how native speakers acquire the phonological patterns in their language is a key task for the field of phonology. Numerous studies have suggested that phonological learning is a biased process: certain phonological patterns are easily accessed and learned by the speakers, while others show acquisition difficulties. These differences…
Descriptors: Phonology, Native Speakers, Language Patterns, Language Acquisition
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Shi, Rushen; Legrand, Camille; Brandenberger, Anna – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2020
Previous research suggests that toddlers can rely on distributional cues in the input to track adjacent and nonadjacent grammatical dependencies. It remains unclear whether toddlers understand the hierarchical phrase structures that determine the corresponding grammatical dependencies. We addressed this question by testing toddlers on two…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Cues, Linguistic Input, Grammar
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Liter, Adam; Grolla, Elaine; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2022
Non-adult-like linguistic behavior in children is sometimes taken as evidence for endogenous factors that drive selection of grammatical features from the child's hypothesis space of possible grammars. Analyses of English-acquiring children's productions of medial "wh"-phrases exemplify this trend in particular. We provide an alternative…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Phrase Structure, Language Acquisition, Grammar
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Zeng, Guocai – Cogent Education, 2018
Theoretically speaking, semantic minimalism and semantic maximalism are two current dominant assumptions on the nature of meaning in the linguistic communication. The former lays more emphasis on the syntactic basis of sentence meaning, while the latter stresses much over the pragmatic properties of utterance meaning. This paper, grounded on the…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Grammar
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Chandler, Steve – First Language, 2020
Ambridge reviews and augments an impressive body of research demonstrating both the advantages and the necessity of an exemplar-based model of knowledge of one's language. He cites three computational models that have been applied successfully to issues of phonology and morphology. Focusing on Ambridge's discussion of sentence-level constructions,…
Descriptors: Models, Figurative Language, Language Processing, Language Acquisition
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