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Yuan Xie; Peng Zhou; Sergey Avrutin; Peter Coopmans – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2025
Children's knowledge of referential dependency involved in the interpretation of reflexives has been investigated mainly from a purely syntactic perspective. However, syntax alone is insufficient to account for various kinds of referential dependencies, as many of them require discourse interpretations. To fill this gap, the present study…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mandarin Chinese, Syntax, Inferences
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Eleni Peristeri; Katerina Drakoulaki; Antonia Boznou; Michaela Nerantzini; Angeliki Gena; Angelos Lengeris; Spyridoula Varlokosta – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Silent pauses may serve communicative purposes such as demarcating boundaries between discourse units in language production. Previous research has shown that autistic children differ in their pausing behavior from typically-developing (TD) peers, however, the factors behind this difference remain underexplored. The current study was aimed at…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Story Telling, Narration
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Toyese Najeem Dahunsi; Thompson Olusegun Ewata – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Multi-word expressions are formulaic language universals with arbitrary and idiosyncratic collocations. Their usage and mastery are required of learners of a second language in achieving naturalness. However, despite the importance of multi-word expressions to mastering a second language, their syntactic architecture and colligational…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning