This article presents a developmental pathway for the acquisition of morphosyntactic
variation. Although there is abundant evidence that morphosyntactic variation is pervasive …

The ability to process plural marking of nouns is acquired early: at a very young age,
children are able to understand if a noun represents one item or more than one. However …

To explore the clinical potential of grammaticality judgement tasks, this study investigated
whether a Grammaticality Judgment Task (GJT) of inflectional morphology could differentiate …

Purpose Normal-hearing (NH) children acquire plural morphemes at different rates, with the
segmental allomorphs/–s,–z/(eg, cat-s) being acquired before the syllabic allomorph …

Rapid processing of spoken language is aided by the ability to predict upcoming words
using both semantic and syntactic cues. However, although children with hearing loss (HL) …

Purpose The plural is one of the first grammatical morphemes acquired by English-speaking
children with normal hearing (NH). Yet, those with hearing loss show delays in both plural …

Australian Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers must acquire linguistic structures that
occur only in the community language (eg, English inflectional grammar). This study …

Purpose: Our goal is to understand how the different types of plural marking are understood
and processed by children with cochlear implants (CIs):(a) how does salience affect the …

We characterized the patterns of agreement variation and consistency in three corpora of
child and child-directed US English to better understand preschoolers' input and to compare …

It is often assumed that pre-schoolers learn a second language (L2) with ease, even for
structures that are absent in their L1, such as Mandarin-speaking pre-schoolers learning L2 …