Dana Mcdaniel
Biographic Data
| ID | 747598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana Mcdaniel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdaniel |
| SIGNATURE | MCDANIEL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Maine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Domain-specificity and the development of syntactic dependencies: The role of working memory in the acquisition of adjunct control
This study tests the predictions of domain-general and language-specific accounts for children’s interpretations of adjunct control, as in “John called Bill before running to the store.” While adults only allow a subject interpretation for these sentences – that John ran to the store – children have allowed non-subject interpretations at various rates across studies. In particular, we consider how these interpretations may arise due to incomplete…
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…
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…
Bare Singular Effects in Genitive Constructions
L'accord du nombre dans les constructions genitives soutient que le numeral et le genitif dans : One woman's keys fell on the floor forment un constituant. L'A. veut mettre en evidence une possible relation d'accord entre un numeral pluriel (two) et le nom de tete. Une etude experimentale analyse les jugements de grammaticalite sur diferents exemples du type : Two women's keys fell on the floor
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…
Parameters for Wh-movement types: Evidence from child English
A Longitudinal Study of Principles of Control and Pronominal Reference in Child English
This article reports a nine-month longitudinal study of fifteen children who, at the beginning of the study, ranged in age from 3;10 to 4;11. In the course of the study we traced the development of principles of control in their grammars and tested hypotheses about the linguistic analyses underlying the observed nonadult interpretations of constructions such as Grover tries pro to jump over the fence, Big Bird tells Ernie pro to jump over the fen…
The child as informant: Eliciting linguistic intuitions from young children
Partial and multiple Wh-movement
Preposition-phrase attachment in noun phrases
Partial and multiple Wh-movement
Parameters for Wh-movement types: Evidence from child English
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
Bare Singular Effects in Genitive Constructions
L'accord du nombre dans les constructions genitives soutient que le numeral et le genitif dans : One woman's keys fell on the floor forment un constituant. L'A. veut mettre en evidence une possible relation d'accord entre un numeral pluriel (two) et le nom de tete. Une etude experimentale analyse les jugements de grammaticalite sur diferents exemples du type : Two women's keys fell on the floor
A Longitudinal Study of Principles of Control and Pronominal Reference in Child English
This article reports a nine-month longitudinal study of fifteen children who, at the beginning of the study, ranged in age from 3;10 to 4;11. In the course of the study we traced the development of principles of control in their grammars and tested hypotheses about the linguistic analyses underlying the observed nonadult interpretations of constructions such as Grover tries pro to jump over the fence, Big Bird tells Ernie pro to jump over the fen…
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
The child as informant: Eliciting linguistic intuitions from young children
Preposition-phrase attachment in noun phrases
Partial and multiple Wh-movement
Preposition-phrase attachment in noun phrases
The child as informant: Eliciting linguistic intuitions from young children
A Longitudinal Study of Principles of Control and Pronominal Reference in Child English
This article reports a nine-month longitudinal study of fifteen children who, at the beginning of the study, ranged in age from 3;10 to 4;11. In the course of the study we traced the development of principles of control in their grammars and tested hypotheses about the linguistic analyses underlying the observed nonadult interpretations of constructions such as Grover tries pro to jump over the fence, Big Bird tells Ernie pro to jump over the fen…
Parameters for Wh-movement types: Evidence from child English
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…
Bare Singular Effects in Genitive Constructions
L'accord du nombre dans les constructions genitives soutient que le numeral et le genitif dans : One woman's keys fell on the floor forment un constituant. L'A. veut mettre en evidence une possible relation d'accord entre un numeral pluriel (two) et le nom de tete. Une etude experimentale analyse les jugements de grammaticalite sur diferents exemples du type : Two women's keys fell on the floor
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…
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…
Domain-specificity and the development of syntactic dependencies: The role of working memory in the acquisition of adjunct control
This study tests the predictions of domain-general and language-specific accounts for children’s interpretations of adjunct control, as in “John called Bill before running to the store.” While adults only allow a subject interpretation for these sentences – that John ran to the store – children have allowed non-subject interpretations at various rates across studies. In particular, we consider how these interpretations may arise due to incomplete…
Linguistics (15 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Language Development and Disorders (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works)