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Gerard, Juliana – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2022
Previous research on 4-6-year-olds' interpretations of adjunct control has observed non-adult-like behavior for sentences like "John called Mary before running to the store." Several studies have aimed to identify a grammatical source of children's errors. This study tests the predictions of grammatical and extragrammatical accounts by…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Task Analysis
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Archibald, Lisa M. D.; Gathercole, Susan E. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
Evidence that the abilities to repeat nonwords and to learn language are very closely related to one another has led to widespread interest in the cognitive processes underlying nonword repetition. One suggestion is that nonword repetition is a relatively pure measure of phonological short-term memory closely associated with other measures of…
Descriptors: Cues, Serial Ordering, Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology)