The impact of number mismatch and passives on the real-time processing of relative clauses

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20366729
AutoresCarla Contemori (0000-0003-4264-6750, Pennsylvania State University, autor de correspondencia), Theodoros Marinis (0000-0002-4120-3141, University of Reading)
Año2014
Volumen41
Número3
Páginas658-689
Fecha de publicación2014-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Child Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0305000913000172
PMID23769319
OpenAlexW2027280923
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas37

Language processing plays a crucial role in language development, providing the ability to assign structural representations to input strings (e.g., Fodor, 1998). In this paper we aim at contributing to the study of children's processing routines, examining the operations underlying the auditory processing of relative clauses in children compared to adults. English-speaking children (6;0–8;11) and adults participated in the study, which employed a self-paced listening task with a final comprehension question. The aim was to determine (i) the role of number agreement in object relative clauses in which the subject and object NPs differ in terms of number properties, and (ii) the role of verb morphology (active vs. passive) in subject relative clauses. Even though children's off-line accuracy was not always comparable to that of adults, analyses of reaction times results support the view that children have the same structural processing reflexes observed in adults

Active listening · Agreement · Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Developmental psychology · Linguistics · Listening comprehension · Relative clause · Verb · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills · Communication · Computer Science · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development