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Authors: Su, Yi (Esther) | Crain, Stephen

Date: 2013

Subject Keyword: 200400 Linguistics | downward entailment | disjunction | universal quantification | language acquisition | Mandarin Chinese

Language: eng

Resource Type: journal article

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/284814

Description: Downward entailing linguistic environments license inferences from sets to their subsets. These environments also determine the interpretation of disjunction: Disjunction licenses a conjunctive entail ... More

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Authors: Yuen, Ivan | Demuth, Katherine | Johnson, Mark

Date: 2011

Subject Keyword: 200400 Linguistics | prosodic structure | speech planning | language acquisition

Language: eng

Resource Type: conference paper

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/162847

Description: English-speaking children have acquired phrase-final lengthening by the age of 2, but other aspects of prosodic organization appear to be later acquired. This study investigated 2-year-olds’ prosodic ... More

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Authors: Demuth, Katherine | Moloi, Francina | Machobane, Malillo

Date: 2010

Subject Keyword: 200400 Linguistics | syntactic knowledge | language acquisition | Sesotho passive

Language: eng

Resource Type: journal article

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/119278

Description: Researchers have long been puzzled by the challenge English passive constructions present for language learners, with adult-like comprehension and production emerging only around the age of 5. It has ... More

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Authors: Jensen, Britta | Notley, Anna | Crain, Stephen

Date: 2010

Subject Keyword: 200400 Linguistics | language acquisition | child language | universal quantification | adult logic | child development

Language: eng

Resource Type: conference paper

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/184497

Description: Researchers since Inhelder and Piaget (1964) have replicated a curious finding. When using a picture-verification task (e.g., a picture of four elephants, three of them being ridden by boys), children ... More

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Authors: Demuth, Katherine | Machobane, Malillo | Moloi, Francina

Date: 2009

Subject Keyword: 200400 Linguistics | Sesotho | Bantu languages | noun-class prefixes | nominal agreement | language acquisition | learnability

Language: eng

Resource Type: journal article

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/147994

Description: Noun-class prefixes are obligatory in most Bantu languages. However, the Sotho languages (Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi) permit a subset of prefixes to be realized as null at the intersection of ‘unmarked ... More

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Authors: Thornton, Rosalind | Tesan, Graciela

Date: 2007

Subject Keyword: 170200 Cognitive Sciences | 200400 Linguistics | inflection | language acquisition | negation | parameter-setting

Language: eng

Resource Type: journal article

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/39166

Description: Two triggering models of parameter-setting, the Hierarchical Acquisition model endorsed by Baker (2001, 2005) and Wexler’s (1998) Very Early Parameter Setting model, are compared with Yang’s (2002, 20 ... More

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Authors: Torr, Jane | Simpson, Alyson

Date: 2003

Subject Keyword: 200400 Linguistics | 130100 Education Systems | lexico-grammatical metaphor | systemic grammar | language acquisition

Language: eng

Resource Type: book chapter

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/9942

Description: Since the 1980s, metaphor has received much attention in linguistics in general. Within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the area of 'grammatical metaphor' has become increasingly more important. ... More