The hunt for structure-dependent interpretation: The case of Principle C

Lidz, Jeffrey; Lukyanenko, Cynthia; Sutton, Megan

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104676

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“…However, competence in adjective modification may actually arrive earlier in development: as Waxman and Booth (2001) show, by 16 months, children understand that adjectives pick out properties and not categories. Concerning size adjectives, which we also use as stimuli, Lidz et al (2021) show that English-learning 30-month-olds understand size adjectives and can integrate them syntactically/semantically.…”

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Linguistic, concept and symbolic composition in adults with minimal receptive vocabulary

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Barbarroja

Castroviejo

2023

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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In this paper, we examine some basic linguistic abilities in a small sample of adults with minimal receptive vocabulary, whose receptive mental verbal age ranges from 1;2 to 3;10. In particular, we examine whether the participants in our study understand noun phrases consisting of a noun modified by an adjective. We use stimuli that they can recognise by name. Except for one participant, we find that, while all of them understand the noun and adjective in isolation, none seems to understand these noun phrases, which means that they seem to not do linguistic composition. In order to test whether the difficulty is linguistic or conceptual, we ran two other studies, one on concept composition, and the other on iconic symbolic composition (composition of pictograms). Results suggest that linguistic composition is particularly difficult in this population, and that vocabulary breadth may not predict compositional abilities.

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Section: Adults With Minimal Receptive Vocabularymentioning

confidence: 94%