The question of whether there exists a universal subject preference in relativization has
stimulated research in a wide range of languages and across different domains, yielding an …

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 …

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 …

By about age three, English-learning children begin to understand passive sentences with
familiar verbs. We probed the nature of children's linguistic representations by asking …

The review discusses the neurophysiological basis of the analysis of complex sentences,
such as passives or reverse word order sentences. We adhere to the hypothesis that …

Words have meanings vastly undetermined by the contexts in which they occur. Their
acquisition therefore presents formidable problems of induction. Lila Gleitman and …

Across languages, structures with non-canonical word order have been shown to be
problematic for both child and adult heritage speakers. To investigate the linguistic and child …

Purpose: Children with hearing loss (CHL) who use hearing devices (cochlear implants or
hearing aids) and communicate orally have trouble comprehending sentences with …

This study investigates how neural networks address the properties of children's linguistic
knowledge, with a focus on the Agent‐First strategy in comprehension of an active transitive …

We investigated whether Tagalog-speaking children incrementally interpret the first noun as
the agent, even if verbal and nominal markers for assigning thematic roles are given early in …