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Foppolo, Francesca; Guasti, Maria Teresa; Chierchia, Gennaro – Language Learning and Development, 2012
Children's pragmatic competence in deriving conversational implicatures (and scalar implicatures in particular) offers an intriguing standpoint to explore how developmental, methodological, and purely theoretical perspectives interact and feed each other. In this paper, we focus mainly on developmental and methodological issues, showing that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Value Judgment, Research Design, Child Language
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Arosio, Fabrizio; Yatsushiro, Kazuko; Forgiarini, Matteo; Guasti, Maria Teresa – Language Learning and Development, 2012
We investigated the processing of agreement marking and case marking in the comprehension of German relative clauses in 48 seven-year-old monolingual German-speaking children in a picture selection task. We examined the relation between the effectiveness of these different morphological cues and individual memory resources as measured by a…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Monolingualism, Cues