Cecile Mckee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecile Mckee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecile |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckee |
| SIGNATURE | MCKEE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6178-7597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fast passives, slow relatives
Certain structures are particularly challenging for children. Explanations of such challenges reference both grammatical development and processing capacities. This study concerns production-specific considerations. Sixteen adults and 72 children from ages 3;01 to 8;11 participated in an experiment designed to elicit imitation of one-, two-, and three-clause structures in active and passive voice. The complex structures included complements and r…
Public Outreach in Linguistics: Engaging Broader Audiences
Linguistics is traditionally a university subject. We describe here comprehensive efforts that the University of Arizona's Linguistics Department makes to engage with additional audiences: K-12 and community college students, lifelong learners, and festival-goers. Our coordination of these efforts is relatively recent, and this article emphasizes what we are learning in areas like adjustment to different audiences and efficient use of resources. …
The role of the language production system in shaping grammars
We argue for an extension of the proposal that grammars are in part shaped by processing systems. Hawkins (2014) and others who have advanced this idea focus primarily on parsing. Our extension focuses on production, and we use that to explore explanations for certain subject/object asymmetries in extraction structures. The phenomenon we examine, which we term the mirror asymmetry , runs in opposite directions for within-clause and across-clause …
Children's sentence planning: Syntactic correlates of fluency variations
This paper argues for broader consideration of children's language production systems and, in that context, describes research on children's planning of syntactic structures. The research presented here measures non-fluency patterns in elicited utterances of varied syntactic type. We describe and interpret several regularities in these patterns for two groups of children (‘young’: three–five-year-olds; and ‘older’: six–eight-year-olds) and an adu…
Multiple influences on children's language performance
Our commentary concerns the Competing Factors Model (CFM). As Drozd says, the CFM is fictitious and without proponents. (See also McDaniel, 2001.) But we will argue that something like it is necessary to our field. Everyone recognizes multiple influences on language performance, even C&T. Most important, recognizing these factors does not require a denial of the grammar's existence or even of its dominance
What?s Thats
Methods for Assessing Children's Syntax
Part 1 Production data: collecting spontaneous production data, Katherine Demuth analyzing children's spontaneous speech, Karin Stromswold what children know about what they say - elicited imitation as a research method for assessing children's syntax, Barbara Lust et al elicited production, Rosalind Thornton. Part 2 Comprehension data: the intermodal preferential looking paradigm - a window onto emerging language comprehension, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek…
Relatives Children Say
How Children's Relatives Solve a Problem for Minimalism
Current work in syntax reexamines basic properties of movement. Under the minimalist assumptions of Chomsky (1995), movement is prohibited unless forced by grammatical considerations. From a set of comparable derivations, the one involving the least amount of moved material should therefore block other derivations. Within this framework, any cases of optional movement are problematic. We addressed this issue with experiments on stranding and pied…
Language Acquisition: A Linguistic Introduction
Il clitico: C'è ma non si vede
How Children's Relatives Solve a Problem for Minimalism
Current work in syntax reexamines basic properties of movement. Under the minimalist assumptions of Chomsky (1995), movement is prohibited unless forced by grammatical considerations. From a set of comparable derivations, the one involving the least amount of moved material should therefore block other derivations. Within this framework, any cases of optional movement are problematic. We addressed this issue with experiments on stranding and pied…
Relatives Children Say
Public Outreach in Linguistics: Engaging Broader Audiences
Linguistics is traditionally a university subject. We describe here comprehensive efforts that the University of Arizona's Linguistics Department makes to engage with additional audiences: K-12 and community college students, lifelong learners, and festival-goers. Our coordination of these efforts is relatively recent, and this article emphasizes what we are learning in areas like adjustment to different audiences and efficient use of resources. …
The role of the language production system in shaping grammars
We argue for an extension of the proposal that grammars are in part shaped by processing systems. Hawkins (2014) and others who have advanced this idea focus primarily on parsing. Our extension focuses on production, and we use that to explore explanations for certain subject/object asymmetries in extraction structures. The phenomenon we examine, which we term the mirror asymmetry , runs in opposite directions for within-clause and across-clause …
What?s Thats
Il clitico: C'è ma non si vede
Il clitico: C'è ma non si vede
Language Acquisition: A Linguistic Introduction
Relatives Children Say
How Children's Relatives Solve a Problem for Minimalism
Current work in syntax reexamines basic properties of movement. Under the minimalist assumptions of Chomsky (1995), movement is prohibited unless forced by grammatical considerations. From a set of comparable derivations, the one involving the least amount of moved material should therefore block other derivations. Within this framework, any cases of optional movement are problematic. We addressed this issue with experiments on stranding and pied…
Methods for Assessing Children's Syntax
Part 1 Production data: collecting spontaneous production data, Katherine Demuth analyzing children's spontaneous speech, Karin Stromswold what children know about what they say - elicited imitation as a research method for assessing children's syntax, Barbara Lust et al elicited production, Rosalind Thornton. Part 2 Comprehension data: the intermodal preferential looking paradigm - a window onto emerging language comprehension, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek…
What?s Thats
Multiple influences on children's language performance
Our commentary concerns the Competing Factors Model (CFM). As Drozd says, the CFM is fictitious and without proponents. (See also McDaniel, 2001.) But we will argue that something like it is necessary to our field. Everyone recognizes multiple influences on language performance, even C&T. Most important, recognizing these factors does not require a denial of the grammar's existence or even of its dominance
Children's sentence planning: Syntactic correlates of fluency variations
This paper argues for broader consideration of children's language production systems and, in that context, describes research on children's planning of syntactic structures. The research presented here measures non-fluency patterns in elicited utterances of varied syntactic type. We describe and interpret several regularities in these patterns for two groups of children (‘young’: three–five-year-olds; and ‘older’: six–eight-year-olds) and an adu…
Public Outreach in Linguistics: Engaging Broader Audiences
Linguistics is traditionally a university subject. We describe here comprehensive efforts that the University of Arizona's Linguistics Department makes to engage with additional audiences: K-12 and community college students, lifelong learners, and festival-goers. Our coordination of these efforts is relatively recent, and this article emphasizes what we are learning in areas like adjustment to different audiences and efficient use of resources. …
The role of the language production system in shaping grammars
We argue for an extension of the proposal that grammars are in part shaped by processing systems. Hawkins (2014) and others who have advanced this idea focus primarily on parsing. Our extension focuses on production, and we use that to explore explanations for certain subject/object asymmetries in extraction structures. The phenomenon we examine, which we term the mirror asymmetry , runs in opposite directions for within-clause and across-clause …
Fast passives, slow relatives
Certain structures are particularly challenging for children. Explanations of such challenges reference both grammatical development and processing capacities. This study concerns production-specific considerations. Sixteen adults and 72 children from ages 3;01 to 8;11 participated in an experiment designed to elicit imitation of one-, two-, and three-clause structures in active and passive voice. The complex structures included complements and r…
Linguistics (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Language Development and Disorders (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Grammar (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works)