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Child Processing of VP Ellipsis Constructions (Callahan et al., 2012) ...
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Purpose: To examine children’s comprehension of verb phrase (VP) ellipsis constructions in light of their automatic, online structural processing abilities and conscious, metalinguistic reflective skill. Method: Forty-two children ages 5 through 12 years listened to VP ellipsis constructions involving the strict/sloppy ambiguity (e.g., “The janitor untangled himself from the rope and the fireman in the elementary school did too after the accident.”) in which the ellipsis phrase (“did too”) had 2 interpretations: (a) strict (“untangled the janitor”) and (b) sloppy (“untangled the fireman”). We examined these sentences at a normal speech rate with an online cross-modal picture priming task ( n = 14) and an offline sentence–picture matching task ( n = 11). Both tasks were also given with slowed speech input ( n = 17). Results: Children showed priming for both the strict and sloppy interpretations at a normal speech rate but only for the strict interpretation with slowed input. Offline, children displayed an ...
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170204 Linguistic Processes incl. Speech Production and Comprehension; FOS Psychology; Language
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URL: https://asha.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Child_Processing_of_VP_Ellipsis_Constructions_Callahan_et_al_2012_/14963562 https://dx.doi.org/10.23641/asha.14963562
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