Developmental change in real-time sentence processing  

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Bates, Elizabeth A. ; Berger, Erich Von ; Fink, Nancy ; Wulfeck, Beverly

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 16 no. 47 (Jun. 1996), page 193-222.
Fulltext: First Language 1996 16. 193-222.pdf (1.48MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/FIL/16 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study examines syntactic, semantic and morphologic cues that English-speaking children and young adults use to determine agent roles during sentence interpretation. Processing times associated with these cues are also examined. Both agent choice and reaction times indicate a developmental progression in agent role assignment, with earliest reliance on canonical word order (SVO) followed by later emerging non-canonical strategies (VOS and OSV). Converging information from subject-verb agreement and animacy cues increased use of these non-canonical word orders; however, weaker agreement and animacy cues also appeared to slow down reaction times. Non-canonical VOS, followed by OSV strategies, stabilized between 7-12 years of age, when adult-like patterns of competition and convergence emerged in the interaction between strong and weak cues. Results of this study are considered within the framework of the Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney 1989).

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