Abstract Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and children with Developmental
Dyslexia (DD) have problems comprehending relative clauses (RCs) and find object RCs …

Passive sentences are considered more difficult to comprehend than active sentences.
Previous online-only studies cast doubt on this generalisation. The current paper directly …

Among existing accounts of passivisation difficulty, some argue it depends on the predicate
semantics (ie passives are more difficult with subject-experiencer than agent-patient verbs) …

Through two elicited production experiments we investigated how preschool Italian-
speaking children access the left periphery of the clause with respect to topics in Clitic Left …

The present study aims to show that language exposure at certain age ranges is crucial for
the successful acquisition of certain syntactic structures, such as complement clauses …

Background and aims Implicit learning mechanisms associated with detecting structural
regularities have been proposed to underlie both the long-term acquisition of linguistic …

Children's understanding of passives of certain mental state predicates appears to lag
behind passives of so-called actional predicates, an asymmetry that has posed a major …

Theories of language development differ on how the development of syntax and its mapping
to semantics are conceived. An important question in child language research is about the …

This study assesses the comprehension of verbal passives by children acquiring European
Portuguese. Here I present data from three experimental studies designed to test the …

Passivization played a central role in shaping both linguistic theory and psycholinguistic
approaches to sentence processing, language acquisition and impairment. We present the …