Children's understanding of the agent-patient relations in the transitive construction: Cross-linguistic comparisons between Cantonese, German, and English

By Angel Wing-shan Chan, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello. 2009

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Impact of Working Memory Constraints on Speech Monitoring in Healthy Children (2013, background): “In children age 3-4, especially English speaking children, word order was the preferred over animacy (e.g., " The book geens the goat " where children choose the book rather than the goat as the agent) (Chan et al., 2009).”