Peter A De Villiers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1659396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter A De Villiers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter A |
| FAMILY NAME | De Villiers |
| SIGNATURE | DE VILLIERS P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wh-questions: Moving beyond the first phase
Toward a law of response strength
Toward a law of response strength
Competence and performance in child language: Are children really competent to judge
The notion of competence as it applies to child language is critically assessed in the light of evidence collected from a number of linguistic performances which share the same word-order rule. These performances – production, comprehension, judgment and correction – parallel Moravcsik's (1969) formulation of Chomsky's criteria for tacit knowledge of a rule, i.e. competence. It was found that these criteria are not all satisfied until the child i…
An Effect of the Definite Article on the Salience of a Noun
Subjects were asked to correct the meaning of semantically anomalous sentences in which a noun, either the subject or object, or the verb could be considered anomalous. Increased specificity of reference led to an increase in the salience of the nouns in the meaning of the sentences. A noun was significantly more likely to be retained in the corrections and the verb considered anomalous if that noun was definite than if it was indefinite. Subject…
A cross-sectional study of the acquisition of grammatical morphemes in child speech
Development of the use of word order in comprehension
Early judgments of semantic and syntactic acceptability by children
Early judgments of semantic and syntactic acceptability by children
A cross-sectional study of the acquisition of grammatical morphemes in child speech
Development of the use of word order in comprehension
Competence and performance in child language: Are children really competent to judge
The notion of competence as it applies to child language is critically assessed in the light of evidence collected from a number of linguistic performances which share the same word-order rule. These performances – production, comprehension, judgment and correction – parallel Moravcsik's (1969) formulation of Chomsky's criteria for tacit knowledge of a rule, i.e. competence. It was found that these criteria are not all satisfied until the child i…
An Effect of the Definite Article on the Salience of a Noun
Subjects were asked to correct the meaning of semantically anomalous sentences in which a noun, either the subject or object, or the verb could be considered anomalous. Increased specificity of reference led to an increase in the salience of the nouns in the meaning of the sentences. A noun was significantly more likely to be retained in the corrections and the verb considered anomalous if that noun was definite than if it was indefinite. Subject…
Toward a law of response strength
Toward a law of response strength
Wh-questions: Moving beyond the first phase
Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Comprehension (4 works) · Language Development and Disorders (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Language acquisition (3 works)