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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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A cross‐cultural analysis of early prelinguistic gesture development and Its relationship to language development
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What can bilingual children tell us about the developmental relationship between vocabulary and grammar?
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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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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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The development of determiners in the context of French–English bilingualism: a study of cross-linguistic influence
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In: ISSN: 0305-0009 ; EISSN: 1469-7602 ; Journal of Child Language ; https://hal.univ-lille.fr/hal-02319063 ; Journal of Child Language, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018, 45 (3), pp.767-787. ⟨10.1017/S0305000917000459⟩ (2018)
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Frequency and working memory effects in incidental learning of a complex agreement pattern
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The development of determiners in the context of French-English bilingualism: a study of cross-linguistic influence
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Predicting executive functions in bilinguals using ecologically valid measures of code-switching behavior
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Bilingual cognition and language: the state of the science across its subfields
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Dislocations in French–English bilingual children: An elicitation study
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Dislocations in French–English bilingual children: an elicitation study
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Cross-linguistic influence, cross-linguistic priming and the nature of shared syntactic structures
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