Children use syntax to learn verbs, in a process known as syntactic bootstrap**. The
structure‐map** account proposes that syntactic bootstrap** begins with a universal …

Verbs often participate in more than 1 syntactic structure, but individual verbs can be biased
in terms of whether they are used more often with 1 structure or the other. For instance, in a …

Purpose Children with cochlear implants (CIs) are more likely to struggle with spoken
language than their age-matched peers with normal hearing (NH), and new language …

Father: What do you want on your toast? Abe: The same thing I had on the first toast. Abe:
Except this time cut it into four pieces. Father: I haven't heard anybody ask for anything …

During spoken language comprehension, young children have difficulties in revising
incorrect predictions about the structural properties of sentences. Recent research on …

In a recent study, preschoolers adapted their syntactic expectations about a familiar phrase
in French; this adaptation affected later word learning. In two experiments, we probed the …

Children and adults are guided by verb-specific syntactic likelihoods, or verb bias, in
language comprehension and production. Recent reports showed that verb bias can be …

This dissertation examines Spanish Direct Object clitic pronouns in Argentine spoken
Spanish of adults and children (ages 4; 0-7; 0). It concentrates on (Finite verb+ Nonfinite …

Children often interpret first noun phrases (NP1s) as agents, which improves
comprehension of actives but hinders passives. While children sometimes withhold the …

The ultimate goal of research is to generate and test broad theories that account for a wide
range of scenarios. Conclusions at this level, however, are only valid if they are based on …