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Kirjavainen, Minna; Kidd, Evan; Lieven, Elena – Journal of Child Language, 2017
We report three studies (one corpus, two experimental) that investigated the acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) in Finnish-speaking children. Study 1 found that Finnish children's naturalistic exposure to RCs predominantly consists of non-subject relatives (i.e. oblique, object) which typically have inanimate head nouns. Study 2 tested…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Phrase Structure, Child Language, Computational Linguistics
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Bavin, Edith L.; Prendergast, Luke A.; Kidd, Evan; Baker, Emma; Dissanayake, Cheryl – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: There is variability in the language of children with autism, even those who are high functioning. However, little is known about how they process language structures in real time, including how they handle potential ambiguity, and whether they follow referential constraints. Previous research with older autism spectrum disorder (ASD)…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Autism, Comparative Analysis