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Date: 2013
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
| Assessment
| Complement clauses
| Complex language
| Elicitation tasks
| Language development
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/277563
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The aim of this study was to determine whether data from specifically designed elicitation tasks and commonly-used language sampling techniques provided the same information about children's productio
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Authors:
Thornton, Rosalind
| Tesan, Graciela
Date: 2013
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/229004
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Starting with the seminal work of Klima & Bellugi (1966) and Bellugi (1967), young English-speaking children have been observed to pass through a stage at which their negative utterances differ from t
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Date: 2012
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
| acquisition of semantics
| disjunction in natural language
| scope ambiguity
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/184149
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This study examined 4- to 5-year-old English-speaking children's interpretations of sentences containing negation, the universal quantifier, and disjunction. Disjunction is assigned two different mean
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Authors:
Crain, Stephen
| Thornton, Rosalind
Date: 2012
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/177017
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Every normal child acquires a language in just a few years. By 3- or 4-years-old, children have effectively become adults in their abilities to produce and understand endlessly many sentences in a var
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Authors:
Landau, Idan
| Thornton, Rosalind
Date: 2011
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
| Control
| Infinitival clauses
| Language acquisition
| Non-obligatory control
| Raising to object
| Subjunctive clauses
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/139544
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English-speaking children's emerging knowledge of control is investigated by focusing on the complementation of the verb want, a verb that permits both obligatory control and raising to object (RtO) c
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Authors:
Shankweiler, Donald
| Palumbo, Laura Conway
| Fulbright, Robert K
| Mencl, W. Einar
| Van Dyke, Julie
| Kollia, Betty
| Thornton, Rosalind
| Crain, Stephen
| Harris, Katherine S
Date: 2010
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/188715
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Background: There is still a dearth of information about grammatical aspects of language production in aphasia. Aims: Making novel use of methods of elicited production aimed at testing the limits of
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Date: 2010
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/148803
Description:
5 page(s)
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Authors:
Thornton, Rosalind
Date: 2010
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/149060
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The emergence of verb phrase ellipsis is investigated in two 2-year-old English-speaking children's speech by studying their answers to yes/no questions over the period of about a year. The investigat
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Date: 2009
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/315792
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In the 1980s, researchers in child language devised several new experimental techniques to assess children's emerging linguistic competence. Innovations in methodology were needed to bridge the appare
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Date: 2009
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/149086
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Children often produce nonadult responses to sentences with the focus operator only, such as Only the cat is holding a flag. For example, children often accept this sentence as a description of a situ
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Date: 2009
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
| First order logic
| Innateness
| Language acquisition
| Semantics
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1150749
Description:
This review discusses several kinds of linguistic generalizations that pose a challenge for the constructionist approach to linguistic generalizations advocated by Adele Goldberg. It is difficult to s
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Authors:
Thornton, Rosalind
Date: 2008
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
| acquisition of syntax
| continuity
| parameter setting
| why-questions
| left periphery
| subject-aux
| inversion
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/43728
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This paper examines over 900 why-questions gathered in a longitudinal study of an English-speaking child from 2 to 6 years of age. The child went through a protracted stage in which many why-questions
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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
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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
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Date: 2006
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
| child language
| learnability - continuity hypothesis
| semantics
| why-questions
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/13453
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According to the theory of Universal Grammar, the primary linguistic data guides children through an innately specified space of hypotheses. On this view, similarities between child-English and adult-
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Authors:
Kiguchi, Hirohisa
| Thornton, Rosalind
Date: 2004
Subject Keyword:
200400 Linguistics
Language: eng
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/38745
Description:
Antecedent-contained deletion (ACD) constructions have been the focus of much recent literature in linguistic theory. These constructions have been instrumental in arguments against dispensing with th
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