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More Relativization Asymmetries: Children Find Locative and Benefactive Clauses Difficult
Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol.42, pp.72-85
01/01/2018
Abstract
Bondoc et al present their study on elicited production task and a character selection task designed to assess comprehension among children. In order to focus on the morphosyntactic contrasts among the four patterns, it was necessary to control for other factors, including the number of arguments per clause and the possibility of semantic biases. The authors found no differences on the two relative clause pairs among adults in the RC elicited production task. In contrast, the children showed a significant difference on the ARC vs BRC comparison, consistent with a more general tendency for success on ARCs, as reported by Tanaka. Moreover, the absence of prompt effects and interactions in all four conditions suggest that priming was not a major factor in the children's performance.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- More Relativization Asymmetries: Children Find Locative and Benefactive Clauses Difficult
- Creators
- Ivan BondocWilliam O'GradyKamil DeenNozomi TanakaEllyn ChuaAngela De LeonJoshua Siscar
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol.42, pp.72-85
- ISSN
- 1080-692X
- Publisher
- Cascadilla Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Linguistics; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984702721802771
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