Adjective forms and functions in British English child-directed speech

C Davies, J Lingwood, S Arunachalam - Journal of child language, 2020 - cambridge.org
Adjectives are essential for describing and differentiating concepts. However, they have a
protracted development relative to other word classes. Here we measure three-and four …

Referential context and executive functioning influence children's resolution of syntactic ambiguity.

Z Qi, J Love, C Fisher… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Classic studies reveal two striking differences between preschoolers and adults in online
sentence comprehension. Adults (a) recruit referential context cues to guide syntactic …

[PDF][PDF] 儿童语言习得机制跨学科研究: 进展, 问题和前景

周鹏 - 语言战略研究 - researchgate.net
提要语言是由人类神经生物属性决定的一套认知计算系统, 它使我们可以理解和产出无限的具有
内在结构的语言单元. 这套认知计算系统在婴儿出生后飞速发展, 5 岁左右的幼儿已经接近成人 …

[PDF][PDF] Accepted at Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition

Z Qi, J Love, C Fisher, S Brown-Schmidt, Z Qi - 2020 - osf.io
Classic studies reveal two striking differences between preschoolers and adults in online
sentence comprehension. Adults (a) recruit referential context cues to guide syntactic …

[PDF][PDF] The Acquisition of Prosodic Focus-Identification: The Role of Variation in Focus-Marking

B Surányi, L Pintér - 2020 - real.mtak.hu
A key discourse function that mediates between communicative context and sentence
prosody in a regular—and to a large extent grammaticalized—manner is focus. The …

[PDF][PDF] SUBJECTS FIRST! THE ROLE OF WORD ORDER AND PROSODIC PROMINENCE AS DISAMBIGUATING CUES IN ITALIAN.

V Moscati - … , processing and bilingualism: selected papers from the …, 2020 - unige.ch
In Italian, dislocation in the left periphery generates non-canonical word orders that might
result in ambiguous strings. In particular, object focus fronting with an overt lexical subject …