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Lexicalization in the developing parser
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In: Glossa Psycholinguistics, vol 1, iss 1 (2022)
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Eighteen-month-old infants represent nonlocal syntactic dependencies.
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In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 118, iss 41 (2021)
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Eighteen-month-old infants represent nonlocal syntactic dependencies.
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In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 118, iss 41 (2021)
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE AND ITS INTERACTION WITH OTHER ASPECTS OF COGNITION: THE CASE OF MEDIAL WH-QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH AND IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE ...
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE AND ITS INTERACTION WITH OTHER ASPECTS OF COGNITION: THE CASE OF MEDIAL WH-QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH AND IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE ...
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The effect of intonation on the illocutionary force of declaratives in child comprehension
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In: Sinn und Bedeutung; Bd. 25 (2021): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25; 307-324 ; Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung; Vol 25 (2021): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25; 307-324 ; 2629-6055 (2021)
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Eighteen-month-old infants represent nonlocal syntactic dependencies
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In: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2021)
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The human ability to produce and understand an indefinite number of sentences is driven by syntax, a cognitive system that can combine a finite number of primitive linguistic elements to build arbitrarily complex expressions. The expressive power of syntax comes in part from its ability to encode potentially unbounded dependencies over abstract structural configurations. How does such a system develop in human minds? We show that 18-mo-old infants are capable of representing abstract nonlocal dependencies, suggesting that a core property of syntax emerges early in development. Our test case is English wh-questions, in which a fronted wh-phrase can act as the argument of a verb at a distance (e.g., What did the chef burn?). Whereas prior work has focused on infants’ interpretations of these questions, we introduce a test to probe their underlying syntactic representations, independent of meaning. We ask when infants know that an object wh-phrase and a local object of a verb cannot co-occur because they both express the same argument relation (e.g., *What did the chef burn the pizza). We find that 1) 18 mo olds demonstrate awareness of this complementary distribution pattern and thus represent the nonlocal grammatical dependency between the wh-phrase and the verb, but 2) younger infants do not. These results suggest that the second year of life is a period of active syntactic development, during which the computational capacities for representing nonlocal syntactic dependencies become evident.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026469118 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8521675/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34607945
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Determiners are "conservative" because their meanings are not relations: evidence from verification
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In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory; Proceedings of SALT 30; 206-226 ; 2163-5951 (2021)
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Do 4-year-olds employ island constraints during sentence processing? ...
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Passive sentence constructions are known by everyone (even four-year olds)
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Do 4-year-olds employ island constraints during sentence processing?
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Prelinguistic Understanding of Collective & Distributive Events
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When is a Reflexive not a Reflexive? Near-reflexivity and Condition R
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In: North East Linguistics Society (2020)
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Prosody and Function Words Cue the Acquisition of Word Meanings in 18-Month-Old Infants
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In: ISSN: 0956-7976 ; Psychological Science ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02951124 ; Psychological Science, Association for Psychological Science, 2019, 30 (3), pp.319-332. ⟨10.1177/0956797618814131⟩ (2019)
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Prosody and Function Words Cue the Acquisition of Word Meanings in 18-Month-Old Infants ...
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