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Pyykkonen, Pirita; Matthews, Danielle; Jarvikivi, Juhani – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Recent evidence from adult pronoun comprehension suggests that semantic factors such as verb transitivity affect referent salience and thereby anaphora resolution. We tested whether the same semantic factors influence pronoun comprehension in young children. In a visual world study, 3-year-olds heard stories that began with a sentence containing…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Verbs
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Orsolini, Margherita; Fanari, Rachele; Bowles, Hugo – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Tested the cross-linguistic applicability of the dual mechanism model, investigating children's spontaneous performance with past definite and elicited performance with past definite and past participle. Performance profiles with productive and unproductive inflections could not be categorically distinguished. Phonologically transparent…
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries