This review article presents evidence for the claim that frequency effects are pervasive in
children's first language acquisition, and hence constitute a phenomenon that any …

Abstract Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) has been explained as either a deficit
deriving from an abstract representational deficit or as emerging from difficulties in acquiring …

The current study investigated the role of cross-linguistic influence in Cantonese–English
bilingual children's comprehension of subject-and object-extracted relative clauses (RCs) …

This volume provides a broad introduction to Chinese linguistics, offering an accessible
synthesis of the most relevant topics in the field. Despite the steady growth in interest in …

We report here on a series of elicited production experiments that investigate the production
of indirect object and oblique relative clauses by monolingual child learners of English and …

This study investigates the developmental trajectory of relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin-
learning children's speech. We analyze the spontaneous production of RCs by four …

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), present in 2 out of every 30 children, affects
primarily oral language abilities and development in the absence of associated biomedical …

We report on an eye-tracking study that investigated four-year-old Cantonese-speaking
children's online processing of subject and object relative clauses (RCs). Children's eye …

This study examined the phenomena of incomplete acquisition, attrition, and protracted
acquisition of the L1 in HL children by focusing on the comprehension and production of …

Native (L1) and second-language (L2) sentence processing can sometimes be shallow. A
Good-Enough approach suggests that speakers may engage in shallow processing if the …