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Franck, Julie; Millotte, Severine; Posada, Andres; Rizzi, Luigi – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
Word order is one of the earliest aspects of grammar that the child acquires, because her early utterances already respect the basic word order of the target language. However, the question of the nature of early syntactic representations is subject to debate. Approaches inspired by formal syntax assume that the head-complement order,…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Models, Constructivism (Learning), Word Order
O'Shannessy, Carmel – Journal of Child Language, 2011
The study examines strategies multilingual children use to interpret grammatical relations, focusing on their two primary languages, Lajamanu Warlpiri and Light Warlpiri. Both languages use mixed systems for indicating grammatical relations. In both languages ergative-absolutive case-marking indicates core arguments, but to different extents in…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Sentences, Language Research, Form Classes (Languages)
Kootstra, Gerrit Jan; van Hell, Janet G.; Dijkstra, Ton – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
In four experiments, we investigated the role of shared word order and alignment with a dialogue partner in the production of code-switched sentences. In Experiments 1 and 2, Dutch-English bilinguals code-switched in describing pictures while being cued with word orders that are either shared or not shared between Dutch and English. In Experiments…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Word Order, Indo European Languages, Bilingualism
Onishi, Kristine H.; Murphy, Gregory L.; Bock, Kathryn – Cognitive Psychology, 2008
Three cued-recall experiments examined the effect of category typicality on the ordering of words in sentence production. Past research has found that typical items tend to be mentioned before atypical items in a phrase--a pattern usually associated with lexical variables (like word frequency), and yet typicality is a conceptual variable.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Long Term Memory, Word Order
Narasimhan, Bhuvana; Dimroth, Christine – Cognition, 2008
In expressing rich, multi-dimensional thought in language, speakers are influenced by a range of factors that influence the ordering of utterance constituents. A fundamental principle that guides constituent ordering in adults has to do with information status, the accessibility of referents in discourse. Typically, adults order previously…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Child Language, Caregivers

Hu, Mingliang – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1993
Discussed the relationship between definiteness and word order (WO) from three aspects: the position of the unquantified noun phrases as related to their definiteness; effects of quantifiers on WO; and relative order of different noun phrases in the same clause. Data verify that the correlation between definiteness and WO is valid for larger…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research, Mandarin Chinese
Yoon, James H. – 1989
Recent proposals concerning the relationship between thematic structure and syntactic structure, including the idea of thematic hierarchy, when used with certain language-specific properties, offer insight into some problems concerning the Mandarin Chinese phrase structure condition (PSC). The PSC is such that the internal structure of XP contains…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Mandarin Chinese
Lozano, Cristobal – Second Language Research, 2006
Recent unrelated studies reveal what appears to be a common acquisitional pattern in second language acquisition (SLA). While some findings show that advanced learners can indeed achieve convergent, native-like competence with formal syntactic properties (even when these are underdetermined by the input), other findings suggest that they can…
Descriptors: Word Order, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Native Speakers
Valimaa-Blum, Riitta – 1988
The order of constituents in Finnish clauses having free word order is analyzed. It is proposed that these clauses are defined only in terms of their immediate constituency, and that the logically possible permutations of these constituents form another set of sequence constructions, which transcend individual clause types. Each sequence…
Descriptors: Finnish, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
de Hoop, Helen; Kramer, Irene – Language Acquisition, 2006
We find a general, language-independent pattern in child language acquisition in which there is a clear difference between subject and object noun phrases. On one hand, indefinite objects tend to be interpreted nonreferentially, independently of word order and across experiments and languages. On the other hand, indefinite subjects tend to be…
Descriptors: Word Order, Nouns, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Dorgeloh, Heidrun – 1994
Locative inversion, one aspect of word order in English discourse in which the positions of verb and noun phrase are inverted (e.g., "in front of the house is a tree"), is examined. It is argued that inversions after deictic adverbs and those after non-deictic, locative constituents are related, both representing devices: (1) expressing point of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns

Kelly, Michael H.; And Others – Journal of Memory and Language, 1986
Reports three studies which explored relationships between prototypicality and sentence structure in recall, preference ratings, and natural dictionary definitions. The results can be explained in terms of the sensitivity of sentence production processes to the lexical or conceptual accessibility of prototypes. (Author/AMH)
Descriptors: Adults, Concept Formation, Definitions, Language Patterns

Guillory, Helen Gant – Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 1994
Examines word order in French relative clauses, the last clauses to undergo reanalysis to [SVO] word order through Old and Middle French. Analysis shows that although main clauses change from [SVO] to [TVX] to [SVO] in a progressive manner, clauses in "que" show a preference for [TVX] order until the 13th century, with a resurgence in…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, French, Grammar, Language Patterns

O'Grady, William; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Tests the prediction that children acquiring left-branching languages will exhibit a preference for backward patterns of anaphora by presenting data from Japanese and Korean which show the prediction to be false. Findings support the view that any directionality preference for anaphora is the same for all languages. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Generative Grammar, Interviews
Heltoft, Lars; Jakobsen, Lisbeth Falster – 1995
Two papers on linguistic theory are presented. The first examines the relationship between two subsystems of Danish grammar: (1) the morphology and meaning of the two passives (a morphological passive and a periphrastic passive); and (2) the word order rules and meanings attached to indefinite subjects, irrespective of voice. It is claimed that…
Descriptors: Danish, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar
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