John Grinstead
Biographic Data
| ID | 797361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Grinstead |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Grinstead |
| SIGNATURE | GRINSTEAD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6667-8250 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The role of cognitive and linguistic abilities on subject personal pronoun expression in Spanish-speaking children
This study analyses subject personal pronoun (SPP) use in Spanish among 82 typically developing children, assessing how executive functions (EFs) and linguistic abilities interact with third-person singular pronoun expression. Researchers manually coded 9750 SPP instances from sociolinguistic interviews and administered standardized tests of morphosyntax, lexicon, inhibition, working memory (WM), and attention. The investigation had two aims: (1)…
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the collective implicature in child language
We test children’s distributive and collective sentence interpretations and the variables that predict them. In our first experiment, we establish that adult English collective sentences with the or some in the subject are categorically collective in their interpretations. We further demonstrate that children’s collective and distributive interpretations are predicted by an independent measure of lexical growth, consistent with the lexical refrac…
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the Quantity Implicature in Child Language
We review an array of experimental methodological factors that either contribute to or detract from the measurement of pragmatic implicatures in child language. We carry out a truth value judgment task to measure children’s interpretations of the Spanish existential quantifier algunos in implicature-consistent and implicature-inconsistent contexts. Independently, we take measures of children’s inhibition, working memory, attention, approximate nu…
A Collective-Distributive Pragmatic Scale and the Developing Lexicon
A locus of the difference in meaning between distributive and collective sentences can be the quantifiers that modify their subjects. A current theoretical account of distributive and collective sentences claims that sentences with quantifiers such as the in English, or los in Spanish, in subject position and an indefinite direct object, modified by a in English, or una in Spanish, are ambiguous as to whether they are distributive or collective, …
Interface Delay
Interface Delay is a theory of syntactic development, which attempts to explain an array of constructions that are slow to develop, which are characterized by being sensitive to discourse-pragmatic considerations of the type associated with the natural semantic class of definites. The theory claims that neither syntax itself, nor the discourse-pragmatic abilities related to executive function and theory of mind themselves are slow to develop. Rat…
Syntactic Gender Agreement Processing on Direct-Object Clitics by Spanish-Speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have a psycholinguistic profile evincing multiple syntactic processing impairments. Spanish-speaking children with DLD struggle with gender agreement on clitics; however, the existing evidence comes from offline, elicitation tasks. In the current study, we sought to determine whether converging evidence of this deficit can be found. In particular, we use the real-time processing technique of eve…
Anxiety, lexicon, and morphosyntax in instructed L2 Spanish
Although generalized anxiety has increased among college students, it is unclear what effect this has on language anxiety. While language anxiety has been shown to negatively affect second language achievement, its impact at the level of specific linguistic subdomains has not been evaluated. In what follows, we explore what relationship, if any, exists between Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Foreign Language Anxiety and whether either construct …
Inversion and finiteness in Spanish and English
There is evidence to suggest that finiteness marking on verbs and subject-auxiliary inversion are related phenomena in English. In contrast, in Spanish there is evidence consistent with finiteness marking on verbs and the apparently similar phenomenon of subject-verb inversion being unrelated. In both cases, most of the evidence adduced comes from adult acceptability judgments and other adult psycholinguistic work. In the present article, we pres…
Null Subject Occurrence in Monolingual Spanish SLI
Background: Child Spanish-speakers appear to use more null subjects than do adults. Null subject use, like the use of tense marking, is sensitive to discourse-pragmatics. Because tense marking has been used to identify child Spanish-speakers with specific language impairment (SLI) with near good sensitivity and specificity (89%), null subject use may as well, following the predictions of the Interface Deficit Hypothesis. We investigate the possib…
Evidence of optional infinitive verbs in the spontaneous speech of Spanish-speaking children with SLI
Comprehension of Prototypical Tense and Aspect Combinations in Child Spanish
Both children and adults tend to produce predicates with lexical aspect, grammatical aspect and tense in particular prototypical combinations. While it has been argued that these prototypes constitute the linguistic knowledge that children have of tense, others argue that they are independent dimensions of knowledge, even in child language, and that the prototypical groupings of these dimensions in child language fall together for non-linguistic …
Subjects and Interface Delay in Child Spanish and Catalan
I observe that in an earlystage of child Catalan and Spanish, no overt subjects are used. At this same age and MEAN LENGTH OF UTTERANCE (MLU), child speakers of overt subject languages such as French, German, Dutch, and English use at least some overt subjects optionally. I explain this crosslinguistic variation bysuggesting that the adult target grammars vary with respect to the position in which overt subjects are realized. In the overt subject…
Case, inflection and subject licensing in child Catalan and Spanish
The development of specified tense and number morphology in child Catalan and Spanish is found to correlate with the onset of overt subject use. The data come from four monolingual child Catalan-speakers (from the Serrà & Solé corpus) and one monolingual child Spanish-speaker (from the Linaza corpus) who were studied longitudinally from 1:0 to 3;6, approximately. The simultaneous emergence of tense and number morphology on one hand and overt subj…
Constraints on the computational component vs. grammar in the lexicon
In The emergence of language , it is argued that much of what generative linguistics has characterized as ‘rules’ in fact can be derived from domain- general cognitive mechanisms. One example of this perspective is Bates & Goodman's contribution ‘On the emergence of grammar in the lexicon’, which Sabbagh & Gelman say offers ‘...a series of compelling arguments detailing how development and early acquisition shape the subsequent acquisition of new…
Subjects and Interface Delay in Child Spanish and Catalan
I observe that in an earlystage of child Catalan and Spanish, no overt subjects are used. At this same age and MEAN LENGTH OF UTTERANCE (MLU), child speakers of overt subject languages such as French, German, Dutch, and English use at least some overt subjects optionally. I explain this crosslinguistic variation bysuggesting that the adult target grammars vary with respect to the position in which overt subjects are realized. In the overt subject…
Evidence of optional infinitive verbs in the spontaneous speech of Spanish-speaking children with SLI
Case, inflection and subject licensing in child Catalan and Spanish
The development of specified tense and number morphology in child Catalan and Spanish is found to correlate with the onset of overt subject use. The data come from four monolingual child Catalan-speakers (from the Serrà & Solé corpus) and one monolingual child Spanish-speaker (from the Linaza corpus) who were studied longitudinally from 1:0 to 3;6, approximately. The simultaneous emergence of tense and number morphology on one hand and overt subj…
Constraints on the computational component vs. grammar in the lexicon
In The emergence of language , it is argued that much of what generative linguistics has characterized as ‘rules’ in fact can be derived from domain- general cognitive mechanisms. One example of this perspective is Bates & Goodman's contribution ‘On the emergence of grammar in the lexicon’, which Sabbagh & Gelman say offers ‘...a series of compelling arguments detailing how development and early acquisition shape the subsequent acquisition of new…
Subjects and Interface Delay in Child Spanish and Catalan
I observe that in an earlystage of child Catalan and Spanish, no overt subjects are used. At this same age and MEAN LENGTH OF UTTERANCE (MLU), child speakers of overt subject languages such as French, German, Dutch, and English use at least some overt subjects optionally. I explain this crosslinguistic variation bysuggesting that the adult target grammars vary with respect to the position in which overt subjects are realized. In the overt subject…
Comprehension of Prototypical Tense and Aspect Combinations in Child Spanish
Both children and adults tend to produce predicates with lexical aspect, grammatical aspect and tense in particular prototypical combinations. While it has been argued that these prototypes constitute the linguistic knowledge that children have of tense, others argue that they are independent dimensions of knowledge, even in child language, and that the prototypical groupings of these dimensions in child language fall together for non-linguistic …
Evidence of optional infinitive verbs in the spontaneous speech of Spanish-speaking children with SLI
Inversion and finiteness in Spanish and English
There is evidence to suggest that finiteness marking on verbs and subject-auxiliary inversion are related phenomena in English. In contrast, in Spanish there is evidence consistent with finiteness marking on verbs and the apparently similar phenomenon of subject-verb inversion being unrelated. In both cases, most of the evidence adduced comes from adult acceptability judgments and other adult psycholinguistic work. In the present article, we pres…
Null Subject Occurrence in Monolingual Spanish SLI
Background: Child Spanish-speakers appear to use more null subjects than do adults. Null subject use, like the use of tense marking, is sensitive to discourse-pragmatics. Because tense marking has been used to identify child Spanish-speakers with specific language impairment (SLI) with near good sensitivity and specificity (89%), null subject use may as well, following the predictions of the Interface Deficit Hypothesis. We investigate the possib…
A Collective-Distributive Pragmatic Scale and the Developing Lexicon
A locus of the difference in meaning between distributive and collective sentences can be the quantifiers that modify their subjects. A current theoretical account of distributive and collective sentences claims that sentences with quantifiers such as the in English, or los in Spanish, in subject position and an indefinite direct object, modified by a in English, or una in Spanish, are ambiguous as to whether they are distributive or collective, …
Interface Delay
Interface Delay is a theory of syntactic development, which attempts to explain an array of constructions that are slow to develop, which are characterized by being sensitive to discourse-pragmatic considerations of the type associated with the natural semantic class of definites. The theory claims that neither syntax itself, nor the discourse-pragmatic abilities related to executive function and theory of mind themselves are slow to develop. Rat…
Syntactic Gender Agreement Processing on Direct-Object Clitics by Spanish-Speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have a psycholinguistic profile evincing multiple syntactic processing impairments. Spanish-speaking children with DLD struggle with gender agreement on clitics; however, the existing evidence comes from offline, elicitation tasks. In the current study, we sought to determine whether converging evidence of this deficit can be found. In particular, we use the real-time processing technique of eve…
Anxiety, lexicon, and morphosyntax in instructed L2 Spanish
Although generalized anxiety has increased among college students, it is unclear what effect this has on language anxiety. While language anxiety has been shown to negatively affect second language achievement, its impact at the level of specific linguistic subdomains has not been evaluated. In what follows, we explore what relationship, if any, exists between Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Foreign Language Anxiety and whether either construct …
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the Quantity Implicature in Child Language
We review an array of experimental methodological factors that either contribute to or detract from the measurement of pragmatic implicatures in child language. We carry out a truth value judgment task to measure children’s interpretations of the Spanish existential quantifier algunos in implicature-consistent and implicature-inconsistent contexts. Independently, we take measures of children’s inhibition, working memory, attention, approximate nu…
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the collective implicature in child language
We test children’s distributive and collective sentence interpretations and the variables that predict them. In our first experiment, we establish that adult English collective sentences with the or some in the subject are categorically collective in their interpretations. We further demonstrate that children’s collective and distributive interpretations are predicted by an independent measure of lexical growth, consistent with the lexical refrac…
The role of cognitive and linguistic abilities on subject personal pronoun expression in Spanish-speaking children
This study analyses subject personal pronoun (SPP) use in Spanish among 82 typically developing children, assessing how executive functions (EFs) and linguistic abilities interact with third-person singular pronoun expression. Researchers manually coded 9750 SPP instances from sociolinguistic interviews and administered standardized tests of morphosyntax, lexicon, inhibition, working memory (WM), and attention. The investigation had two aims: (1)…
Linguistics (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Language Development and Disorders (10 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Lexicon (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works)