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The discourse bases of relativization: An investigation of young German and English-speaking children's comprehension of relative clauses
In: Cognitive Linguistics (2015)
Abstract: In numerous comprehension studies, across different languages, children have performed worse on object relatives (e.g., the dog that the cat chased) than on subject relatives (e.g., the dog that chased the cat). One possible reason for this is that the test sentences did not exactly match the kinds of object relatives that children typically experience. Adults and children usually hear and produce object relatives with inanimate heads and pronominal subjects (e.g., the car that we bought last year) (cf. Kidd et al., Language and Cognitive Processes 22: 860-897, 2007). We tested young 3-year old German- and English-speaking children with a referential selection task. Children from both language groups performed best in the condition where the experimenter described inanimate referents with object relatives that contained pronominal subjects (e.g., Can you give me the sweater that he bought?). Importantly, when the object relatives met the constraints identified in spoken discourse, children understood them as well as subject relatives, or even better. These results speak against a purely structural explanation for children's difficulty with object relatives as observed in previous studies, but rather support the usage-based account, according to which discourse function and experience with language shape the representation of linguistic structures.
Keyword: Discourse function; English (21900); German (27700); Input frequencies; Keywords: Child Language (11800); Language Acquisition (41600); Object relative clauses; Predicate (67200); Preschool Children (67350); Processing; Relative Clauses (72650); Subject (Grammatical) (85300) Cross-linguistic acquisition
URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/COGL.2009.024
http://hdl.handle.net/1885/80095
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English MPI-EVA-Manchester Corpus
Lieven, Elena; Goh, Jeanine. - : TalkBank, 2015
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Familiar Verbs Are Not Always Easier Than Novel Verbs. How German Pre‐School Children Comprehend Active and Passive Sentences
In: Cognitive science. a multidisciplinary journal of anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology. Journal of the Cognitive Science Society 38 (2014) 1, 128-151
IDS Bibliografie zur deutschen Grammatik
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Discourse Particles and Belief Reasoning: The Case of German doch
In: Journal of semantics 31 (2014) 1, 115-133
IDS Bibliografie zur deutschen Grammatik
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Error patterns in young German children's wh-questions
In: Journal of child language 40 (2013) 3, 656-671
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Formulaic language in L1 acquisition
In: Annual review of applied linguistics. - Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Univ. Press 32 (2012), 3-16
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Productivity of a Polish child's inflectional noun morphology: a naturalistic study
In: Morphology. - Heidelberg [u.a.] : Springer 22 (2012) 1, 9-34
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Two- and four-year-olds learn to adapt referring expressions to context: effects of distracters and feedback on referential communication
In: Topics in cognitive science. - Hoboken, NJ [u.a.] : Wiley 4 (2012) 2, 184-210
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Child language acquisition : contrasting theoretical approaches
Lieven, Elena; Ambridge, Ben. - 1. publ. - Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2011
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'Frequent frames' in German child-directed speech: a limited cue to grammatical categories
In: Cognitive science. - Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell 35 (2011) 6, 1190-1205
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German children's productivity with simple transitive and complement-clause constructions: testing the effects of frequency and diversity
In: Cognitive linguistics. - Berlin ; Boston, Mass. : de Gruyter Mouton 22 (2011) 2, 325-357
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German children use prosody to identify participant roles in transitive sentences
In: Cognitive linguistics. - Berlin ; Boston, Mass. : de Gruyter Mouton 22 (2011) 2, 393-419
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How Polish children switch from one case to another when using novel nouns: challenges for models of inflectional morphology
In: Language and cognitive processes. - Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 26 (2011) 4-6, 830-861
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German-English-speaking children's mixed NPs with 'correct' agreement
In: Bilingualism. - Cambridge : Univ. Press 14 (2011) 2, 173-183
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Child language acquisition : contrasting theoretical approaches
Ambridge, Ben; Lieven, Elena. - Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011
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German children use prosody to identify participant roles in transitive sentences
In: Cognitive linguistics 22 (2011) 2, 393-419
IDS Bibliografie zur deutschen Grammatik
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German children's productivity with simple transitive and complement-clause constructions: Testing the effects of frequency and variability
In: Cognitive linguistics 22 (2011) 2, 325-357
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Input and first language acquisition: evaluating the role of frequency
In: Lingua <Amsterdam>. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier 120 (2010) 11, 2546-2556
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What's in a manner of speaking? Children's sensitivity to partner-specific referential precedents
In: Developmental psychology. - Richmond, Va. [u.a.] : American Psychological Association 46 (2010) 4, 749-760
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Verifying theories of language acquisition using computer models of language evolution
In: Adaptive behavior. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage 18 (2010) 1, 21-35
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