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Direct linkXiangjun Deng; Xiaobei Zheng; Haoyan Ge – First Language, 2024
The acquisition of quantifiers is a central topic in cognitive science. The present study investigated the emergence, frequency, and non-target-like production of the universal quantifiers "all," "every," and "each" in child English from a linguistic perspective, based on the data from longitudinal naturalistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Children
Pyykkonen, Pirita; Matthews, Danielle; Jarvikivi, Juhani – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Recent evidence from adult pronoun comprehension suggests that semantic factors such as verb transitivity affect referent salience and thereby anaphora resolution. We tested whether the same semantic factors influence pronoun comprehension in young children. In a visual world study, 3-year-olds heard stories that began with a sentence containing…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Verbs
Ambridge, Ben; Rowland, Caroline F.; Theakston, Anna L.; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2006
This study investigated different accounts of children's acquisition of non-subject wh-questions. Questions using each of 4 wh-words ("what," "who," "how" and "why"), and 3 auxiliaries (BE, DO and CAN) in 3sg and 3pl form were elicited from 28 children aged 3;6-4;6. Rates of non-inversion error ("Who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Error Analysis (Language), Child Language
