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Syntax and semantics: Similarities in late positive components
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The Developmental Origins of Syntactic Bootstrapping.
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In: Topics in cognitive science, vol 12, iss 1 (2020)
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Implicit learning of distributional patterns in linguistic and non-linguistic sequence production
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Referential Context and Executive Functioning Influence Children’s Resolution of Syntactic Ambiguity
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In: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn (2020)
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Classic studies reveal two striking differences between preschoolers and adults in online sentence comprehension. Adults (a) recruit referential context cues to guide syntactic parsing, interpreting an ambiguous phrase as a modifier if a modifier is needed to single out the intended referent among multiple options, and (b) use late-arriving information to recover from misinterpretation. Five-year-olds fail on both counts, appearing insensitive to the referential context, and often failing to recover from parsing errors (Trueswell et al., 1999). But other findings suggest that 5-year-olds show delayed rather than absent sensitivity to the referential context, and that individual differences in executive functioning predict children’s ability to recover from garden-path errors. In two experiments, we built on these findings, focusing on whether children recruit referential-context cues if given time to do so. Children heard temporarily ambiguous instructions (e.g., Put the frog on the pond into the tent), while we monitored their eye-gaze and actions. We used a slow speech rate, and manipulated referential context between rather than within subjects, to give children time to bring referential context cues into play. Across experiments, eye-movement and action analyses revealed emerging sensitivity to the referential context. Moreover, error rates and eye-movement patterns indicating failures to revise were predicted by individual differences in executive function (scores in Simon Says and Flanker tasks). These data suggest that children, like adults, use referential context information in syntactic processing under some circumstances; the findings are also consistent with a role for domain-general executive function in resolution of syntactic ambiguity.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32584080 https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000886 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8287596/
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The developmental origins of syntactic bootstrapping
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In: Top Cogn Sci (2019)
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Narrative comprehension through analogy: A study in cognitive modeling and narrative clustering
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Remembering you read “doctoral dissertation”: Phrase frequency effects in recall and recognition memory
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Grammatical productivity in Mandarin resultative verb compounds
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What does "it" mean anyway? Examining the time course of semantic activation in reference resolution
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On the meaning of numbers: flexibility in the structure and retrieval of memories for Arabic numerals
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The role of syntactic and discourse information in verb learning
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Where are the Cookies? Two- and Three-year-olds use Number-Marked Verbs to Anticipate Upcoming Nouns
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Learning verb syntax via listening : new evidence from 22-month-olds
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The Development of Infants’ Use of Novel Verbal Information when Reasoning about Others' Actions
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Speed limits and red flags: why number agreement accidents happen
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Coming to agreement: representation and processing of English subject-verb agreement in acquisition
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