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Iconicity affects children’s comprehension of complex sentences:The role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences
Abstract: Complex sentences involving adverbial clauses appear in children’s speech at about three years of age yet children have difficulty comprehending these sentences well into the school years. To date, the reasons for these difficulties are unclear, largely because previous studies have tended to focus on only sub-types of adverbial clauses, or have tested only limited theoretical models. In this paper, we provide the most comprehensive experimental study to date. We tested four-year-olds, five-year-olds and adults on four different adverbial clauses (before, after, because, if) to evaluate four different theoretical models (semantic, syntactic, frequency-based and capacity-constrained). 71 children and 10 adults (as controls) completed a forced-choice, picture-selection comprehension test, providing accuracy and response time data. Children also completed a battery of tests to assess their linguistic and general cognitive abilities. We found that children’s comprehension was strongly influenced by semantic factors – the iconicity of the event-to-language mappings – and that their response times were influenced by the type of relation expressed by the connective (temporal vs. causal). Neither input frequency (frequency-based account), nor clause order (syntax account) or working memory (capacity-constrained account) provided a good fit to the data. Our findings thus contribute to the development of more sophisticated models of sentence processing. We conclude that such models must also take into account how children’s emerging linguistic understanding interacts with developments in other cognitive domains such as their ability to construct mental models and reason flexibly about them.
URL: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/87980/
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.10.015
https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/87980/1/de_Ruiter_et_al_Cognition_accepted.pdf
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Some Pieces Are Missing: Implicature Production in Children
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Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors
Kirjavainen, Minna; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Theakston, Anna L.. - : John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2016
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Lexical frequency and exemplar-based learning effects in language acquisition: evidence from sentential complements
In: Language Sciences (2015)
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Lexical frequency and exemplar-based learning effects in language acquisition: evidence from sentential complements
In: Language Sciences (2015)
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The semantics of the transitive causative construction: Evidence from a forced-choice pointing study with adults and children
In: Cognitive linguistics. - Berlin ; Boston, Mass. : de Gruyter Mouton 25 (2014) 2, 293-311
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Child language acquisition: Why universal grammar doesn’t help
In: Language. - Washington, DC : Linguistic Society of America 90 (2014) 3, e53
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Children Use Statistics and Semantics in the Retreat from Overgeneralization
Blything, Ryan P.; Ambridge, Ben; Lieven, Elena V. M.. - : Public Library of Science, 2014
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Investigating the abstractness of children's early knowledge of argument structure
In: Journal of child language. - Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press 33 (2006) 4, 693
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Lexically-based learning and early grammatical development
In: Journal of child language. - Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press 24 (1997) 1, 187-220
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Slot and frame patterns and the development of the determiner category
In: Applied psycholinguistics. - Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press 18 (1997) 2, 123-138
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Observational and checklist measures of vocabulary composition: What do they mean?
In: Journal of child language. - Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press 23 (1996) 3, 573-590
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The Linguistic Implications of Early and Systematic Variation in Child Language Development
In: Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society; BLS 15: General Session and Parasession on Theoretical Issues in Language Reconstruction; 203-214 ; 2377-1666 ; 0363-2946 (1989)
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Turn-taking and pragmatics: two issues in early child language
In: Recent advances in the psychology of language (1978), 215-236
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