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Direct linkYukun Yu; Naomi Havron; Cynthia Fisher – Language Learning, 2025
In a recent study, preschoolers adapted their syntactic expectations about a familiar phrase in French; this adaptation affected later word learning. In two experiments, we probed the generality of this finding by replicating the experiment and extending it to a different expression in English. We examined the ambiguous phrase "the…
Descriptors: French, Syntax, Preschool Children, Nouns
Yoonsang Song; Yu Li; Patrick C. M. Wong – Language Learning, 2025
This study investigates whether syntactic unification occurs during online L2 sentence comprehension using time-frequency analysis. We measured the oscillatory power changes in native English speakers and L1-Cantonese L2-English speakers while they were reading well-formed English sentences, syntactically intact nonsense sentences, and random word…
Descriptors: Brain, Evidence, Syntax, Cognitive Processes
