Acquisition of cognitive compiling

Hamburger, H. J.; Crain, Stephen

doi:10.1016/0010-0277(84)90015-5

Cited by 117 publications

(55 citation statements)

References 6 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Kiran et al (2012) additionally proposed that the enactment component of OM tasks makes them more demanding than SPM tasks, leading to deeper processing and greater improvements in therapy. The OM task requires formulating a plan for demonstrating comprehension (Hamburger & Crain, 1984;Shankweiler, Crain, Gorrell, & Tuller, 1989)-a task demand that interacts with online syntactic processing and is potentially consequential to progress in therapy (Caplan et al, , 2007. In general, the results of this study are consistent with those of mapping therapy (Schwartz et al, 1994), which also focuses on comprehension.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Evaluating Treatment and Generalization Patterns of Two Theoretically Motivated Sentence Comprehension Therapies

Roches

Vallila‐Rohter

Villard

et al. 2016

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose The current study examined treatment outcomes and generalization patterns following 2 sentence comprehension therapies: object manipulation (OM) and sentence-to-picture matching (SPM). Findings were interpreted within the framework of specific deficit and resource reduction accounts, which were extended in order to examine the nature of generalization following treatment of sentence comprehension deficits in aphasia. Method Forty-eight individuals with aphasia were enrolled in 1 of 8 potential treatment assignments that varied by task (OM, SPM), complexity of trained sentences (complex, simple), and syntactic movement (noun phrase, wh -movement). Comprehension of trained and untrained sentences was probed before and after treatment using stimuli that differed from the treatment stimuli. Results Linear mixed-model analyses demonstrated that, although both OM and SPM treatments were effective, OM resulted in greater improvement than SPM. Analyses of covariance revealed main effects of complexity in generalization; generalization from complex to simple linguistically related sentences was observed both across task and across movement. Conclusions Results are consistent with the complexity account of treatment efficacy, as generalization effects were consistently observed from complex to simpler structures. Furthermore, results provide support for resource reduction accounts that suggest that generalization can extend across linguistic boundaries, such as across movement type.

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Evaluating Treatment and Generalization Patterns of Two Theoretically Motivated Sentence Comprehension Therapies

Roches

Vallila‐Rohter

Villard

et al. 2016

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This strategy arises because children are often reluctant to put down a toy they have selected once they have picked it up. Hence they adopt the strategy of making the toy-in-the-hand do all the incoming actions -this phenomenon has been found to be prevalent in act out tasks investigating other complex, but non ambiguous, structures (such as sentences containing a relative clause e.g., Hamburger & Crain, 1982;1984). Meroni and Crain (2003) suggest that a bird-in-the-hand strategy may explain the observation that initially selecting the correct animal seems to be a precursor to arriving upon the correct syntactic interpretation (evident in Trueswell et al, 1999, and in the data presented here).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The kindergarten path effect revisited: Children’s use of context in processing structural ambiguities

Weighall

2008

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Please cite as: Weighall, A.R. (2008). The kindergarten path effect revisited:Children's use of context in processing structural ambiguities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 99 (2008) Children's use of context in processing structural ambiguities. 3 AbstractResearch with adults has shown that ambiguous spoken sentences are efficiently resolved, exploiting multiple cues -including referential context -in order to select the intended meaning (Tanenhaus, Spivey-Knowlton, Eberhard & Sedivy, 1995).Paradoxically, children appear to be insensitive to referential cues when resolving ambiguous sentences, relying instead upon statistical properties intrinsic to the language such as verb biases (Trueswell, Sekerina, Hill & Logrip, 1999). The possibility that children's insensitivity to referential context may be an artifact of the experimental design used in previous work is explored with 60 children aged 4-to 11-years-old. An act-out task was designed in order to discourage children from making incorrect pragmatic inferences, and to prevent premature and ballistic responses by enforcing delayed actions. Performance on this task was directly compared with the standard act-out task used in previous studies. The results suggest that young children (5-year-olds) do not utilize contextual information even under conditions designed to maximize their use of such cues, but that adult-like processing is evident by around the age of 8-years-old. These results support and extend previous findings by Trueswell et al., (1999) and are consistent with a constraint-based learning account of children's linguistic development.

show abstract

“…A recurring finding in studies of children's language processing is that children show greater difficulty than adults in inhibiting and recovering from incorrect initial interpretations of sentences (e.g., Hamburger andCrain 1984, Trueswell et al 1999). Therefore, what appears in adults as transient effects of ungrammatical antecedents might appear in children as ungrammatical interpretations that persist.…”

Section: Principle B Versus Principle Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Equal Treatment for All Antecedents: How Children Succeed with Principle B

et al. 2009

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Children have repeatedly been found to exhibit Principle B violations, with some reports that these violations occur only with nonquantified antecedents. This quantificational asymmetry (QA) in the delay of Principle B effect (DPBE) has been taken as support for a theory that restricts the scope of binding theory to bound variable anaphora (Reinhart 1983). However, the QA has been challenged, on the basis of discrepant findings and methodological concerns (Elbourne 2005). Here, we resolve the status of the QA with 3 studies and a review of over 30 previous studies. Using improved experimental materials, we show that children disallow local pronoun binding with both referential and quantificational antecedents when Principle B is at issue (Experiment 1), but not when Principle B is neutralized (Experiment 2). When methodological flaws are reintroduced, we replicate the QA (Experiment 3). Drawing on evidence from adult language processing, we suggest that the role of Principle B as a filter on representations during sentence understanding, in concert with pragmatic infelicities in the tasks used, accounts for the wide variability in the DPBE in the literature.

show abstract

Acquisition of cognitive compiling

Cited by 117 publications

References 6 publications

Evaluating Treatment and Generalization Patterns of Two Theoretically Motivated Sentence Comprehension Therapies

Evaluating Treatment and Generalization Patterns of Two Theoretically Motivated Sentence Comprehension Therapies

The kindergarten path effect revisited: Children’s use of context in processing structural ambiguities

Equal Treatment for All Antecedents: How Children Succeed with Principle B

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About