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Direct linkHuang, Ruoyu; Fletcher, Paul; Zhang, Zhixiang; Liang, Weilan; Marchman, Virginia; Tardif, Twila – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The current study examined early grammatical marking in a relatively understudied language, Mandarin, by using the Mandarin version of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory. Two waves of data collection included 338 monolingual children (17-36 months; 143 female) at Time 1 and 308 children (32-55 months; 139 female) at Time 2 and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Mandarin Chinese, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Boeg Thomsen, Ditte; Theakston, Anna; Kandemirci, Birsu; Brandt, Silke – Developmental Psychology, 2021
To examine whether children's acquisition of perspective-marking language supports development in their ability to reason about mental states, we conducted a longitudinal study testing whether proficiency with complement clauses around age 3 explained variance in false-belief reasoning 6 months later. Forty-five English-speaking 2- and 3-year-olds…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Grammar, Logical Thinking, Beliefs
Skordos, Dimitrios; Papafragou, Anna – Developmental Psychology, 2014
We report a study that explored the mechanisms used in hypothesizing meanings for novel motion predicates (verbs and prepositions) cross-linguistically. Motion stimuli were presented to English- and Greek-speaking adults and preschoolers accompanied by (a) a novel intransitive verb, (b) a novel transitive verb, (c) a novel transitive preposition,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Language Acquisition, Verbs
