Abstract sentence representations in 3-year-olds: Evidence from language production and comprehension

By Giulia M. L. Bencini, Virginia Valian. 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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The logic of syntactic priming and acceptability judgments (2016, unknown): “Structural priming occurs in children across age groups (e.g., 3-year-olds: Bencini and Valian 2008; 6- and 9-year-olds: Messenger, Branigan, and McLean 2012; 3-4- year-olds and 5-6-year-olds: Rowland et al. 2012; 3-, 4- and 6-year-olds: Savage et al. 2003; 7-8- and 11-12-year-olds: van…”
Is young children's passive syntax semantically constrained? Evidence from syntactic priming. (2012, methodology): “There is increasing evidence that children’s performance in linguistic tests may be contingent on the task that is used to test them (e.g., Bencini & Valian, 2008; Crain & Fodor, 1993; Crain, Thornton, & Murasugi, 2009; Shimpi, Gámez, Huttenlocher, & Vasilyeva, 2007).”
Learning to order words: A connectionist model of heavy NP shift and accessibility effects in Japanese and English (2009, background): “…predictions about the nature of the mechanisms that support structural priming and evidence in support of those predictions has been accumulating (Bencini & Valian, 2008; Ferreira, Bock, Wilson, & Cohen, 2008; Hartsuiker, Bernolet, Schoonbaert, Speybroeck, & Vanderelst, 2008; Huttenlocher,…”
The development of shared syntax in second language learning* (2015, unknown): “Shimpi, Gámez, Huttenlocher and Vasilyeva (2007) also found robust evidence for abstract priming of datives and transitives in 4 year olds and even 3 year olds; the latter finding was confirmed by a study testing for transitive priming in 3 year olds (Bencini & Valian, 2008).”
When and how do children develop knowledge of verb argument structure? Evidence from verb bias effects in a structural priming task (2015, methodology): “Structural priming has also been used in the language acquisition literature to investigate the nature of children’s early syntactic representations (e.g., Bencini & Valian, 2008; Messenger, Branigan, & McLean, 2011; Shimpi, Gámez, Huttenlocher, & Vasilyeva, 2007; Thothathiri & Snedeker, 2008a).”