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International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: The Language 0-5 Project, 2014-2020 ...
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International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Discourse and Morpho-syntactic Effects on Children and Adult's Comprehension of Relative Clauses, 2014-2020 ...
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International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: The Effect of Animacy on Children and Adult's Comprehension of Relative Clauses, 2014-2020 ...
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International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Iconicity Affects Children's Comprehension of Complex Sentences, 2014-2020 ...
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Structural and interactional aspects of adverbial sentences in English mother-child interactions:an analysis of two dense corpora
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A cross‐cultural analysis of early prelinguistic gesture development and Its relationship to language development
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De Ruiter et al, complex sentence comprehension information structure data set ...
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The role of animacy in children’s interpretation of relative clauses in English:Evidence from sentence-picture matching and eye movements
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Subject relative clauses (SRCs) are typically processed more easily than object relative clauses (ORCs), but this difference is diminished by an inanimate head-noun in semantically non-reversible ORCs (“The book that the boy is reading”). In two eye- tracking experiments we investigated the influence of animacy on online processing of semantically reversible SRCs and ORCs using lexically inanimate items that were perceptually animate due to motion (e.g., “Where is the tractor that the cow is chasing”). In Experiment 1, 48 children (aged 4;5–6;4) and 32 adults listened to sentences that varied in the lexical animacy of the NP1 head-noun (Animate/Inanimate) and relative clause (RC) type (SRC/ORC) with an animate NP2 , while viewing two images depicting opposite actions. As expected, inanimate head- nouns facilitated the correct interpretation of ORCs in children, however online data revealed children were more likely to anticipate a SRC as the RC unfolded when an inanimate head-noun was used, suggesting processing was sensitive to perceptual animacy. In Experiment 2, we repeated our design with inanimate (rather than animate) NP2s (e.g., “where is the tractor that the car is following”) to investigate whether our online findings were due to increased visual surprisal at an inanimate as agent, or to similarity-based interference. We again found greater anticipation for an SRC in the inanimate condition, supporting our surprisal hypothesis. Across the experiments, offline measures show that lexical animacy influenced children’s interpretation of ORCs, while online measures reveal that as RCs unfolded, children were sensitive to the perceptual animacy of lexically inanimate NPs, which was not reflected in the offline data. Overall measures of syntactic comprehension, inhibitory control, and verbal short-term memory and working memory were not predictive of children’s accuracy in RC interpretation, with the exception of a positive correlation with a standardized measure of syntactic comprehension in Experiment 1.
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URL: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/144770/1/Macdonald_et_al_accepted.pdf https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/144770/ https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12874
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Testing the Extended Optional Infinitive Hypothesis in English and German
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The role of animacy in children's interpretation of relative clauses in English: evidence from sentence-picture matching and eye movements
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Language-general and language-specific phenomena in the acquisition of inflectional noun morphology: A cross-linguistic elicited-production study of Polish, Finnish and Estonian ...
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Language-general and language-specific phenomena in the acquisition of inflectional noun morphology: A cross-linguistic elicited-production study of Polish, Finnish and Estonian
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How the input shapes the acquisition of verb morphology: Elicited production and computational modelling in two highly inflected languages
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Iconicity affects children’s comprehension of complex sentences:The role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences
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Some Pieces Are Missing: Implicature Production in Children
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Chapter 8. Analogical structure mapping and the formation of abstract constructions
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Children's Acquisition of the English Past-Tense: Evidence for a Single-Route Account From Novel Verb Production Data
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Is Language Development Dependent On Early Communicative Development? ...
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Dependencies in language: On the causal ontology of linguistic systems
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