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Direct linkTang, Ping; Yuen, Ivan; Demuth, Katherine; Rattanasone, Nan Xu – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Contrastive focus, conveyed by prosodic cues, marks important information. Studies have shown that 6-year-olds learning English and Japanese can use contrastive focus during online sentence comprehension: focus used in a "contrastive context" facilitates the identification of a target referent (speeding up processing), whereas focus used…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Prediction
Huang, Yi Ting; Snedeker, Jesse – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Recent research on moment-to-moment language comprehension has revealed striking differences between adults and preschool children. Adults rapidly use the "referential principle" to resolve syntactic ambiguity, assuming that modification is more likely when there are 2 possible referents for a definite noun phrase. Young children do not.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Preschool Children
