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Direct linkBernal, Savita; Dehaene-Lambertz, Ghislaine; Millotte, Severine; Christophe, Anne – Developmental Science, 2010
Syntax allows human beings to build an infinite number of new sentences from a finite stock of words. Because toddlers typically utter only one or two words at a time, they have been thought to have no syntax. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), we demonstrated that 2-year-olds do compute syntactic structure when listening to spoken sentences.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Topography, Verbs, Nouns
