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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Prediction‐based accounts of language acquisition have the potential to explain several different effects in child language acquisition and adult language processing. However …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …