Sparseness of vowel category structure: Evidence from English dialect comparison [0.03%]
英语方言比较中的元音范畴结构的稀疏性证据
Mathias Scharinger,William J Idsardi
Mathias Scharinger
Current models of speech perception tend to emphasize either fine-grained acoustic properties or coarse-grained abstract characteristics of speech sounds. We argue for a particular kind of 'sparse' vowel representations and provide new evid...
Wendy Sandler,Irit Meir,Svetlana Dachkovsky et al.
Wendy Sandler et al.
The relation between prosody and syntax is investigated here by tracing the emergence of each in a new language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language. We analyze the structure of narratives of four signers of this language: two older second gene...
Jill G de Villiers,Peter A de Villiers,Thomas Roeper
Jill G de Villiers
The paper presents a feature-checking theory of wh-movement that attempts to accommodate both adult grammar and the path of acquisition by which children handle long distance movement, indirect questions and partial movement. Partial moveme...
Acquisition of the syntax-discourse interface: The expression of point of view [0.03%]
句法语篇界面的习得——视角的表达
Diane Lillo-Martin,Ronice Müller de Quadros
Diane Lillo-Martin
This study examines the proposal that the syntax-discourse interface is particularly vulnerable, and therefore components of this interface are acquired later than those of the syntax-semantics interface. The proposal is examined using data...
How prosody constrains comprehension: A limited effect of prosodic packaging [0.03%]
语调对理解的影响：语调包装的有限作用
Katy Carlson,Lyn Frazier,Charles Clifton Jr
Katy Carlson
Prosody has a large impact on language processing. We contrast two views of how prosody and intonation might exert their effects. On a 'prosodic packaging' approach, prosodic boundaries structure the linguistic input into perceptual and mem...
Who did Buzz see someone? Grammaticality judgement of wh-questions in typically developing children and children with Grammatical-SLI [0.03%]
典型发展儿童和语法性SLI儿童疑问句发展的评断研究——以“谁”开头的疑问句为例
Heather K J van der Lely,Melanie Jones,Chloë R Marshall
Heather K J van der Lely
This paper tests claims that children with Grammatical(G)-SLI are impaired in hierarchical structural dependencies at the clause level and in whatever underlies such dependencies with respect to movement, chain formation and feature checkin...
Grammatical feature dissimilarities make relative clauses easier: A comprehension study with Italian children [0.03%]
语法特征差异使从句更易于理解：一项针对意大利儿童的语义研究
Flavia Adani,Heather K J van der Lely,Matteo Forgiarini et al.
Flavia Adani et al.
The Relativized Minimality approach to A'-dependencies (Friedmann et al., 2009) predicts that headed object relative clauses (RCs) and which-questions are the most difficult, due to the presence of a lexical restriction on both the subject ...
Wendy Sandler
Wendy Sandler
Evidence from sign language strongly supports three positions: (1) language is a coherent system with universal properties; (2) sign languages diverge from spoken languages in some aspects of their structure; and (3) domain-external factors...
Sign Languages: Contribution to Neurolinguistics from Cross-Modal Research [0.03%]
手势语：跨模式研究对神经语言学的贡献
Evie Malaia,Ronnie Wilbur
Evie Malaia
Using sign language research as an example, we argue that both the cross-linguistic descriptive approach to data, advocated by Evans and Levinson (2009), as well as abstract ('formal') analyses are necessary steps towards the development of...
Discourse prominence effects on 2.5-year-old children's interpretation of pronouns [0.03%]
discourse突出性对2.5岁儿童代词理解的影响
Hyun-Joo Song,Cynthia Fisher
Hyun-Joo Song
Three experiments examined 2.5-year-olds' sensitivity to discourse structure in pronoun interpretation. Children heard simple two-character stories illustrated by pictures on two video screens. In Experiments 1 and 2, one character in each ...