Young Children Use the Discourse Marker "But" to Provide Clarifications in Everyday Conversations [0.03%]
年幼的孩子在日常对话中使用“但是”来提供澄清说法
Luis De la Viña,Julia Chunxiao Hu,Paul L Harris et al.
Luis De la Viña et al.
To communicate effectively, speakers must monitor and refine their utterances based on what their interlocutors know. Young children's use of the contrastive marker but offers a window into this ability. Using longitudinal transcripts, we e...
Semantic composition and pragmatic reasoning in preschool children's interpretation of negated gradable adjectives [0.03%]
学龄前儿童对否定程度形容词的语义组合和实用推理能力的研究
Xiaowen Zhang,Peng Zhou
Xiaowen Zhang
Absolute gradable adjectives (e.g., dry) and relative gradable adjectives (e.g., tall) interact differently with negation, with only negated absolute gradable adjectives semantically entailing their antonyms (e.g., not dry ⊨ wet). This stu...
Age-Related Changes in Implicit Causality and Consequentiality Pronoun Biases [0.03%]
年龄相关的因果关系和结果关系代词偏见的变化
Amanda Rose Yuile,Joshua K Hartshorne
Amanda Rose Yuile
When adults encounter pronouns in sentences like "Sally frightened Mary because she…," they typically resolve the pronoun to the inferred cause of the event, a phenomenon called implicit causality. Similarly, in sentences like "Because Sal...
Late acquisition of pronoun use in European Portuguese: Subject-object asymmetries in Portuguese-German bilingual children [0.03%]
欧洲葡萄牙语代词使用习得延迟：葡萄牙语-德语双语儿童中主我与宾我不对称性
Cristina Flores,Esther Rinke
Cristina Flores
This study investigates the use of subject and object pronouns in European Portuguese (EP) by Portuguese-German bilingual children living in Switzerland and their monolingual peers in Portugal. Written narratives from 61 children aged 10-12...
Does young children's interest in categories influence their familiar word-object recognition? [0.03%]
幼儿的分类兴趣是否影响其熟悉的词-物体识别？
Sarah Eiteljoerge,Lena Ackermann,Robert Hepach et al.
Sarah Eiteljoerge et al.
Over the first 2 years, children learn to recognize many familiar objects when hearing its label. Nonetheless, recognition is influenced by factors such as category size, frequency, and salience. Since a child's individual interests influen...
Mengyao Shang,Ziyin Mai,Stephen Matthews et al.
Mengyao Shang et al.
In Mandarin, the head noun in [modifier clause-de-N] encodes not only the arguments or adjuncts of the clausal verbs (e.g. "John/biscuits/plate" in the event of "John eating biscuits") but also non-argument, non-adjunct participants extende...
Child Phonology in a Language Revitalization Context: Evidence from Hul'q'umi'num' [0.03%]
语言复兴背景下的儿童音系学：Hul'q'umi'num'语言的证据
Boey Kwan,Sonya Bird,Martina Joe et al.
Boey Kwan et al.
Indigenous language revitalization is a multi-generational process. For example, many children now acquiring a Salish language in Western Canada are learning from caregivers who are second-language speakers. Little is known about the trajec...
Disentangling Bilingualism and Developmental Language Disorder in the Acquisition of Spanish Verbal Agreement Morphology [0.03%]
从西班牙语谓词屈折形态习得过程解析双语与语言发展障碍的影响
Patrick D Thane,Anny P Castilla-Earls,Ana T Pérez-Leroux et al.
Patrick D Thane et al.
116 bilingual and monolingual children aged 4;0-6;11 with developmental language disorder (DLD) and typical development (TD) completed an elicited production task examining Spanish verbal agreement in the preterit past. Children with TD pro...
Perceptual asymmetries in the development of lexical tone perception in Thai-learning children [0.03%]
泰语学习儿童音调感知的不对称性发展特征研究
Antonia Götz,Suparuthai Sumonwiriya,Benjawa Kasisopa et al.
Antonia Götz et al.
Discrimination of vowel and consonant pairs is influenced by their order, known as perceptual asymmetry, and recent research suggests a similar effect for lexical tones. This study tested whether discrimination of two consecutive tones is e...
To bind or not to bind: Individual differences in pronominal processing among adolescent Mandarin-English heritage speakers [0.03%]
绑定还是不绑定：青少年 Mandarin-English Heritage Speaker 指代词处理的个体差异研究
Jiuzhou Hao,Vincent DeLuca,Jason Rothman
Jiuzhou Hao
This study examines how late adolescent Mandarin-English heritage speakers (HSs) process different types of Mandarin pronouns in real time and how individual differences in cognitive and experiential factors modulate this process. Using a w...