Heather C P Lemen

Dados Biográficos

ID6489877
NOMEHeather C P Lemen
PRENOMESHeather C P
SOBRENOMELemen
ASSINATURALEMEN H C P
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Manchester
ORCID0000-0002-2657-186X
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS3
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR3
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2021
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H0

  • The influence of pragmatic function on children's comprehension of complex because- and if-sentences

    Open AccessHeather C P Lemen, Elena Lieven et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Language Sciences2024

    Introduction In complex adverbial sentences, the connectives because and if can perform different pragmatic functions (e.g. Content, Speech-Act), although this is often overlooked in studies investigating children's acquisition of these connectives. In this study, we investigated whether pragmatic variation is responsible for some of the difficulty young children have in understanding because - and if -sentences and tested the extent to which pat…

  • Structural and interactional aspects of adverbial sentences in English mother-child interactions

    Open AccessLaura de Ruiter, Heather C P Lemen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2021

    We analysed both structural and functional aspects of sentences containing the four adverbials “after”, “before”, “because”, and “if” in two dense corpora of parent-child interactions from two British English-acquiring children (2;00–4;07). In comparing mothers’ and children's usage we separate out the effects of frequency, cognitive complexity and pragmatics in explaining the course of acquisition of adverbial sentences. We also compare these us…

  • A comparison of the pragmatic patterns in the spontaneous because- and if-sentences produced by children and their caregivers

    Open AccessHeather C P Lemen, Elena Lieven et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2021Referências: 7

    Findings from corpus (e.g. Diessel, 2004) and comprehension (e.g. De Ruiter et al., 2018) studies show that children produce the adverbial connectives because and if long before they seem able to understand them. However, although children's comprehension is typically tested on sentences expressing the pragmatic relationship which Sweetser (1990) calls "Content", children also hear and produce sentences expressing "Speech–Act" relationships (e.g.…