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Direct linkTanaka, Nozomi; O'Grady, William; Deen, Kamil; Bondoc, Ivan Paul – First Language, 2019
This article reports on the acquisition of relative clauses in Tagalog, the most widely spoken language in the Philippines. A distinctive feature of Tagalog is a unique system of voice that creates competing patterns, each with different possibilities for relativization. This study of children's performance on agent and patient relative clauses in…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Tagalog, Language Patterns, Native Language
Zimmer, Elly Jane – First Language, 2017
This study asks whether children accept both interpretations of ambiguous sentences with contexts supporting each option. Twenty-six 3- to 5-year-old English-speaking children and a control group of 30 English-speaking adults participated in a truth value judgment task. As a step towards evaluating the complexity of syntactic ambiguity, the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reading Comprehension, Ambiguity (Semantics), Syntax
