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Koring, Loes; Giblin, Iain; Thornton, Rosalind; Crain, Stephen – First Language, 2020
This response argues against the proposal that novel utterances are formed by analogy with stored exemplars that are close in meaning. Strings of words that are similar in meaning or even identical can behave very differently once inserted into different syntactic environments. Furthermore, phrases with similar meanings but different underlying…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Figurative Language, Syntax, Phrase Structure
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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
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Naigles, Letitia R. – First Language, 2020
This commentary critiques Ambridge's radical exemplar model of language acquisition using research from the Longitudinal Study of Early Language, which has tracked the language development of 30+ children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) since 2002. This research has demonstrated that the children's capacity for abstraction at the grammatical…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Grammar, Models
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Hopp, Holger – Second Language Research, 2014
This article offers the author's commentary on the Multiple Grammars (MG) language acquisition theory proposed by Luiz Amaral and Tom Roeper in the present issue. Multiple Grammars advances the claim that optionality is a constitutive characteristic of any one grammar, with interlanguage grammars being perhaps the clearest examples of a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Native Language
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Unsworth, Sharon – Second Language Research, 2014
The central claim in Amaral and Roeper's (this issue; henceforth A&R) keynote article is that everyone is multilingual, whether they speak one or more languages. In a nutshell, the idea is that each speaker has multiple grammars or "sub-sets of rules (or sub-grammars) that co-exist". Thus, rather than positing complex rules to…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Linguistic Theory, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Martin-Loeches, Manuel; Casado, Pilar; Munoz, Francisco – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
In this response to Demestre's comment, we first discuss the terms "legal" and "prohibited," applied to syntactic structures, stressing that there are boundaries in which the legality of certain constructions appears imprecise and is a matter of discussion. This coalesces with actual and daily use by native speakers of a language, who can normally…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syntax, Native Speakers, Grammar
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Demestre, Josep – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
During the last years there has been an increasing interest in examining the brain responses to word order variations. In one ERP study conducted in Spanish, Casado, Martin-Loeches, Munoz, and Fernandez-Frias (2005) had participants read Spanish transitive sentences with either an SVO (subject-verb-object) or an OVS order. The word order of a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Brain
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Thomason, Sarah G. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Jurgen Meisel argues that "grammatical variation...can be described...in terms of parametric variation", and--crucially for his arguments in this paper--that "parameter settings do not change across the lifespan". To this extent he adopts the standard generative view, but he then departs from what he calls "the literature on historical…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Diachronic Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Staub, Adrian; Grant, Margaret; Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
In this brief rejoinder, we respond to Farmer, Monaghan, Misyak, and Christiansen (2011). We argue that the data still do not support the claim that reading time is affected by the phonological typicality of a word for its part of speech. We also question Farmer et al.'s claim that interleaving syntactic structures in an experiment modifies…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Syntax, Reading, Phonology
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Smith, Michael B. – Language Sciences, 2009
Studies on complementation in English and other languages have traditionally focused on syntactic issues, most notably on the constituent structures of different complement types. As a result, they have neglected the role of meaning in the choice of different complements. This paper investigates the semantics of complementation within the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, English, Linguistic Theory
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Lillo-Martin, Diane; Snyder, William – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2009
Passives has been the focus of much research in language acquisition since the 1970s. It has been clear from this research that young children seldom produce passives spontaneously, particularly "long" or "full" passives with a by-phrase; and they usually perform poorly on experimental tests of the comprehension of passives, especially passives of…
Descriptors: Language Research, Verbs, Performance Factors, Language Acquisition
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Slabakova, Roumyana – Second Language Research, 2009
While agreeing with Lardiere that the "parameter-resetting" approach to understanding second language acquisition (SLA) needs rethinking, it is suggested that a more construction-based perspective runs the risk of losing deductive and explanatory power. An alternative is to investigate the constraints on feature assembly/re-assembly in second…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Grammar, Form Classes (Languages)
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De Diego-Balaguer, Ruth; Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni – Language Learning, 2010
Studies about bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA) have a long tradition within linguistic and psycholinguistic research. The contributions from psycholinguistic research are crucial to the improvement of neurolinguistic models. This importance stems from the fact that psycholinguistic research is posing more specific questions than…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Language Processing
Freige, Elisabeth – Linguistique, 1979
Verbal elements in Cairene Arabic are investigated in the light of two opposing hypotheses, one stating that the elements constitute a unit, the other stating that each element is an independent predicate. (AM)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Regional Dialects
Michiels, A. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1978
Examines "do so" and "so do" constructions, with reference to the questions of verb phrase constituency and ambiguity. (AM)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure
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