Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder

J Lai, A Chan, E Kidd - Brain and Language, 2024 - Elsevier
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 Comprehension of Headed and Headless Relative Clauses in Mandarin: Evidence from Monolingual and Mandarin-English Heritage Bilingual Children

S Zhang, V Tantucci, S Brandt - Language Learning and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
For head-initial languages like English, there is a strong consensus that subject relative
clauses (RCs) are acquired earlier and are processed more easily than object RCs …

The acquisition of relative clauses and noun phrase accessibility: testing the NPAH in Cantonese

E Lau - Language Learning and Development, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NAPH) posits a subject advantage in
extraction from relative clauses and other constructions–a claim supported by numerous …

Wh-word acquisition in Czech: Exploring the growing trees hypothesis

R Šimík, K Matiasovitsová, F Smolík - Language Acquisition, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We investigate the acquisition of different functions of wh-words in Czech (Slavic)-a
language where wh-words are highly polyfunctional. Our working hypothesis is that the …