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Direct linkChestnut, Eleanor K.; Markman, Ellen M. – Cognitive Science, 2018
Although "Girls are as good as boys at math" explicitly expresses equality, we predict it could nevertheless suggest that boys have more raw talent. In statements with this subject-complement structure, the item in the complement position serves as the reference point and is thus considered more typical and prominent. This explains why…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Talent, Prediction, Sentence Structure
Stabler, Edward P. – Cognitive Science, 2004
Four different kinds of grammars that can define crossing dependencies in human language are compared here: (1) "context sensitive rewrite" grammars with rules that depend on context; (2) "matching" grammars with constraints that filter the generative structure of the language; (3) "copying" grammars which can copy structures of unbounded size;…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sentence Structure, Context Effect, Generative Grammar
