The Young Child's Development of Sentence Comprehension: Influence of Event Probability, Nonverbal Context, Syntactic Form, and Strategies

Strohner, Hans; Nelson, Keith E.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1974.tb00639.x

Cited by 54 publications

(32 citation statements)

References 11 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…A cross-sectional study of children and adults aged 5-26 years revealed that mean amplitudes of the N400 decreased with age and distribution of the N400 became more focal with age, marked by a more posterior distribution (Holcomb et al, 1992). These results were interpreted as younger children relying more heavily on sentence context as a processing strategy compared with older children and adults, which mirrors results in behavioral studies (Bates et al, 1984;Bever, 1970;Hirsh-Pasek & Golinkoff, 1996;Lindner, 2003;Strohner & Nelson, 1974;Thal & Flores, 2001).…”

Section: N400 Amplitude Distinguishes Cws Who Will Eventually Recovermentioning

confidence: 58%

Neural Indices of Semantic Processing in Early Childhood Distinguish Eventual Stuttering Persistence and Recovery

Kreidler

Wray

Usler

et al. 2017

J Speech Lang Hear Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Section: N400 Amplitude Distinguishes Cws Who Will Eventually Recovermentioning

confidence: 58%

Neural Indices of Semantic Processing in Early Childhood Distinguish Eventual Stuttering Persistence and Recovery

Kreidler

Wray

Usler

et al. 2017

J Speech Lang Hear Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Many studies that have tested for word order comprehension by having infants enact sentences have inadvertently tested for verb comprehension (e.g. Strohner & Nelson 1974, Chapman & Kohn 1978, Bates, MacWhinney, Caselli, Devescovi, Natale & Venza 1984. Common transitive verbs such as hit, push, and chase seem to be in the child's comprehension vocabulary by the age of 2;o.…”

Section: Experiments IImentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A number of studies (e.g. Strohner & Nelson 1974, Bates et al 1984 have reported that English-speaking children around the age of 2;o, capable of producing two-word utterances themselves, use word order to interpret sentences. A number of other studies, however, argue that when all contextual and semantic cues are removed, children are considerably older before they can demonstrate comprehension of word order (Chapman & Kohn 1978, Lempert 1978.…”

Section: E X P E R I M E N T I I Imentioning

confidence: 99%

The eyes have it: lexical and syntactic comprehension in a new paradigm

et al. 1987

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A new method to assess language comprehension in infants and young children is introduced in three experiments which test separately for the comprehension of nouns, verbs, and word order. This method requires a minimum of motor movement, no speech production, and relies on the differential visual fixation of two simultaneously presented video events accompanied by a single linguistic stimulus. The linguistic stimulus matches only one of the video events. In all three experiments patterns of visual fixation favour the screen which matches the linguistic stimulus. This new method may provide insight into the child's emerging linguistic capabilities and help resolve longstanding controversies concerning language production versus language comprehension.

show abstract

“…This hypothesis was motivated by Slobin's (1966) analysis of Russian acquisition data. in Sinclair & Bronckart (1972), de Villiers & de Villiers (1973, Strohner &Nelson (1974), andLempert &Kinsbourne (1980). So, he concluded (Slobin 1966 : 134-35): "There must be something in LAD [.…”

Section: The Role Of Word Order In the Acquisition Of Syntactic Strucmentioning

confidence: 99%

Special Topic: First Language Acquisition Foreword

1989

Folia Linguistica

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The study of child language has its high time during this decade. The original boom set upby the Chomskyan conception of the child äs a little ünguist and the resulting mass of longitudinal data and formal grammars in the sixties had later been extended to let semantic-cognitive models and communicative approaches into the field y too.This thematic section is an attempt to provide a picture about the various approaches to child language äs used in European countries. The image is by far not intended äs anexhaustiveone, however. Not only are languages missing -due to a lack of incoming papers from colleagues we have approached -but the communicative framework is almost entirely missing. Our ambition was only to provide a picture of child language studies concentrating on grammar.Even within the limited scope of this volume some features characteristic of contemporary child language research can be discerned in the volume. The paper by Pacesova shows that the traditional longitudinal method is still with us and it can give interesting insights concerning less well studied languages. The main trend, however, äs the papers by Chipman and Francavilla, Schaner-Wolles and Pleh, Komlosy and Ackermann show, is the use of experimentation. Experimental data are becoming important concerning cross-linguistic comparisons, äs both the review article by Schaner-Wolles and the paper by Chipman and Francavilla show.Experimental results are interpreted today both with reference to grammatical models and to possible processing principles (Schaner-Wolles). With this emphasize oneombininglinguisticandpsychological Inspiration child language research may start a fruitfull new Folia Linguistica XXIII/1-2 0165-4004/89/0023-105 $ 2 t -© Mouton/de Gruyter, Berlin Societas Linguistica Europaea Brought to you by | University of Queensland -UQ Library Authenticated Download Date | 6/19/15 6:23 AM Folia Linguistica XXIII/l-2 0165-4004/89/0023-107 $ 2 y -© Mouton/de Gruyter, Berlin Societas Linguistica Europaea Brought to you by | University of Queensland -UQ Library Authenticated Download Date | 6/19/15 6:23 AM2.3.1 Nominative singular appeared äs the first. This might be expected in view of the fact that -at the earliest stages of language development -the labelling of persons and objects is most frequent way of communication and the vast majority of dialogues consistsof thequestions "who is it" or "what is it", the answer being, both on the part of the child and the adult, naturally, the noun in nominative singular. As for the phonemic shape, however, only those forms which are regulär and lucidly marked äs for gender were in agreement with adult forms. This suggests that the child is more sensitive to regularity than to frequency of the heard models. Hence the explanation äs t o why the nominative singular, in spite of its high frequency, had so many deviated forms and also for the child's preference of diminutives, i.e. the onomasiological category which closely corresponds to his hypothesis on word structure, viz. unification of the Suff...

show abstract

The Young Child's Development of Sentence Comprehension: Influence of Event Probability, Nonverbal Context, Syntactic Form, and Strategies

Cited by 54 publications

References 11 publications

Neural Indices of Semantic Processing in Early Childhood Distinguish Eventual Stuttering Persistence and Recovery

Neural Indices of Semantic Processing in Early Childhood Distinguish Eventual Stuttering Persistence and Recovery

The eyes have it: lexical and syntactic comprehension in a new paradigm

Special Topic: First Language Acquisition Foreword

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About