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Direct linkThorpe, Kirsten; Fernald, Anne – Cognition, 2006
Three studies investigated how 24-month-olds and adults resolve temporary ambiguity in fluent speech when encountering prenominal adjectives potentially interpretable as nouns. Children were tested in a looking-while-listening procedure to monitor the time course of speech processing. In Experiment 1, the familiar and unfamiliar adjectives…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Adults, Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages)
