Implicit learning of structure across time: A longitudinal investigation of syntactic priming in young English-acquiring children

S Kumarage, S Donnelly, E Kidd - Journal of Memory and Language, 2022 - Elsevier
Theories of language acquisition vary significantly in their assumptions regarding the
content of children's early syntactic representations and how they subsequently develop …

The persistence of priming: Exploring long‐lasting syntactic priming effects in children and adults

K Messenger - Cognitive science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The implicit learning account of syntactic priming proposes that the same mechanism
underlies syntactic priming and language development, providing a link between a child and …

[HTML][HTML] A meta-analysis of syntactic priming experiments in children

S Kumarage, S Donnelly, E Kidd - Journal of Memory and Language, 2024 - Elsevier
A substantial literature exists using the syntactic priming methodology with children to test
hypotheses regarding the acquisition of syntax, under the assumption that priming effects …

Developmental effects in the online use of morphosyntactic cues in sentence processing: Evidence from Tagalog

R Garcia, GG Rodriguez, E Kidd - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Children must necessarily process their input in order to learn it, yet the architecture of the
developing parsing system and how it interfaces with acquisition is unclear. In the current …

Syntactic representations are both abstract and semantically constrained: Evidence from children's and adults' comprehension and production/priming of the English …

A Bidgood, JM Pine, CF Rowland… - Cognitive …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
All accounts of language acquisition agree that, by around age 4, children's knowledge of
grammatical constructions is abstract, rather than tied solely to individual lexical items. The …

A Comprehensive Examination of Prediction‐Based Error as a Mechanism for Syntactic Development: Evidence From Syntactic Priming

S Donnelly, C Rowland, F Chang, E Kidd - Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Prediction‐based accounts of language acquisition have the potential to explain several
different effects in child language acquisition and adult language processing. However …

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 …

Within and across language predictors of word learning processes in dual language learners

A Pace, R Luo, D Levine, A Iglesias… - Child …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated the relation between Dual Language Learners'(N= 90) vocabulary
and grammar comprehension and word learning processes in preschool (aged 3‐through‐5 …

Chapter 2. Syntactic priming and child language competence: A critical review and methodological considerations for future research

C Contemori - Syntactic priming in language acquisition …, 2022 - degruyter.com
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 …

Knowing how you know: Toddlers reevaluate words learned from an unreliable speaker

I Dautriche, L Goupil, K Smith, H Rabagliati - Open Mind, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
There has been little investigation of the way source monitoring, the ability to track the
source of one's knowledge, may be involved in lexical acquisition. In two experiments, we …