Children's sentence planning: Syntactic correlates of fluency variations

McDaniel, Dana; McKee, Cecile; Garrett, Merrill F.

doi:10.1017/s0305000909009507

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“…However, older children did have faster articulation rates than younger children, and articulation rates for both age groups were fastest in modeled utterances. McDaniel et al (2010) showed that fluency variation is correlated with syntactic variables in adults and children. But previous studies on rate have typically not systematically manipulated such variables (see Logan et al, 2011, and sources cited there).…”

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“…These and related findings led us to conclude that the sentence planning system is architecturally similar for children and adults, but that children are not as capable of advance planning. (For further discussion, see McDaniel et al, 2010;McDaniel, McKee, & Garrett, 2011;McDaniel, McKee, Cowart, & Garrett, 2012. ) Our study for this report compared utterances with relative clause structures to utterances with conjoined clause structures.…”

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“…Psycholinguists interpret hesitations of various kinds (e.g., filled and unfilled pauses, their locations and, in some cases, their duration) as indicating processing load in research on adults. We have sought to probe developmental changes in sentence planning capacities with these measures (McDaniel, McKee, & Garrett, 2010). We concentrate here on articulation rate in children and adults as it may relate to sentence processing.…”

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Articulation rate: Effects of age, fluency, and syntactic structure

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Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología

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“…Given that depth of embedding is associated with planning difficulties in production (MCDANIEL, GARRETT, & MCKEE, 2010), increased cost of referential accessibility (GORDON, HENDRICK, LEDOUX, & YANG, 1999), and a general bias for high attachment (PEREZ-LEROUX, CASTILLA-EARLS, BEJAR, MASSAM, & PETERSON, in press), it is possible that the observed stage with no recursion may result from performance constraints.…”

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Down two steps: Are bilinguals delayed in the acquisition of recursively embedded PPs?

Pérez‐Leroux

Pettibone

Castilla-Earls

2017

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The present study examines whether bilingual children are delayed in the ability to produce complex DPs. We elicited production of DPs containing two PP modifiers, in two conditions designed to tease apart the acquisition of an embedding rule from the acquisition of the recursivity of an embedding rule. In the recursive condition, one modifier PP was itself modified by an additional PP. In the non-recursive condition, both PPs sequentially modified the main noun. Participants were 71 English monolingual children and 35 bilinguals between the ages of four and six. The evidence suggested an overall difference between groups, however further analysis revealed that bilinguals differed from monolinguals only insofar as the onset of PP embedding. No specific additional bilingual delay arose from the recursive condition. This suggests that recursive embedding is a resilient domain in language acquisition and supports proposals that link morphosyntactic delays in bilingual children to domains of grammar that are heavily reliant on lexical learning, which would include learning the first instance of PP embedding.

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“…In speech production, pauses tend to occur at clause boundaries, suggesting that clauses typically function as planning units (Butterworth, 1980; Garrett, 1982; McDaniel et al, 2010). While prosody is arguably not a primary information source during parsing, it clearly provides ancillary support that aids processing.…”

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Implicit Prosody and Cue-based Retrieval: L1 and L2 Agreement and Comprehension during Reading

Pratt

Fernández

2016

Front. Psychol.

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This project focuses on structural and prosodic effects during reading, examining their influence on agreement processing and comprehension in native English (L1) and Spanish–English bilingual (L2) speakers. We consolidate research from several distinct areas of inquiry—cognitive processing, reading fluency, and L1/L2 processing—in order to support the integration of prosody with a cue-based retrieval mechanism for subject-verb agreement. To explore this proposal, the experimental design manipulated text presentation to influence implicit prosody, using sentences designed to induce subject-verb agreement attraction errors. Materials included simple and complex relative clauses with head nouns and verbs that were either matched or mismatched for number. Participants read items in one of three presentation formats (whole sentence, word-by-word, or phrase-by-phrase), rated each item for grammaticality, and responded to a comprehension probe. Results indicated that while overall, message comprehension was prioritized over subject-verb agreement computation, presentation format differentially affected both measures in the L1 and L2 groups. For the L1 participants, facilitating the projection of phrasal prosody onto text (phrase-by-phrase presentation) enhanced performance in agreement processing, while disrupting prosodic projection via word-by-word presentation decreased comprehension accuracy. For the L2 participants, however, phrase-by-phrase presentation was not significantly beneficial for agreement processing, and additionally resulted in lower comprehension accuracy. These differences point to a significant role of prosodic phrasing during agreement processing in both L1 and L2 speakers, additionally suggesting that it may contribute to a cue-based retrieval agreement model, either acting as a cue directly, or otherwise scaffolding the retrieval process. The discussion and results presented provide support both for a cue-based retrieval mechanism in agreement, and the function of prosody within such a mechanism, adding further insight into the interaction of retrieval processes, cognitive task load, and the role of implicit prosody.

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Children's sentence planning: Syntactic correlates of fluency variations

Cited by 41 publications

References 29 publications

Articulation rate: Effects of age, fluency, and syntactic structure

Articulation rate: Effects of age, fluency, and syntactic structure

Down two steps: Are bilinguals delayed in the acquisition of recursively embedded PPs?

Implicit Prosody and Cue-based Retrieval: L1 and L2 Agreement and Comprehension during Reading

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