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Direct linkRabagliati, Hugh; Pylkkanen, Liina; Marcus, Gary F. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Language is rife with ambiguity. Do children and adults meet this challenge in similar ways? Recent work suggests that while adults resolve syntactic ambiguities by integrating a variety of cues, children are less sensitive to top-down evidence. We test whether this top-down insensitivity is specific to syntax or a general feature of children's…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Semantics), Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Infants
