The implicit learning account of syntactic priming proposes that the same mechanism
underlies syntactic priming and language development, providing a link between a child and …

Theories of language acquisition vary significantly in their assumptions regarding the
content of children's early syntactic representations and how they subsequently develop …

Prediction‐based accounts of language acquisition have the potential to explain several
different effects in child language acquisition and adult language processing. However …

Children must necessarily process their input in order to learn it, yet the architecture of the
develo** parsing system and how it interfaces with acquisition is unclear. In the current …

A substantial literature exists using the syntactic priming methodology with children to test
hypotheses regarding the acquisition of syntax, under the assumption that priming effects …

This study investigated the relation between Dual Language Learners'(N= 90) vocabulary
and grammar comprehension and word learning processes in preschool (aged 3‐through‐5 …

All accounts of language acquisition agree that, by around age 4, children's knowledge of
grammatical constructions is abstract, rather than tied solely to individual lexical items. The …

Theories of language development differ on how the development of syntax and its map**
to semantics are conceived. An important question in child language research is about the …

Syntactic priming effects are argued to reflect the mechanisms that underlie language
acquisition. This chapter explores the predictions of key models for such learning via …

Classic studies reveal two striking differences between preschoolers and adults in online
sentence comprehension. Adults (a) recruit referential context cues to guide syntactic …