Limits on the Agent-First Strategy: Evidence from Children's Comprehension of a Transitive Construction in Korean
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13038
Abstract: It has long been believed across languages that the Agent-First strategy, a comprehension heuristic that maps the first noun onto the agent role, is a general cognitive bias which applies automatically and faithfully to children's… read more here.
Keywords: agent first; children comprehension; case; strategy ... See more keywords
Who "it" is influences what "it" does: Discourse effects on children's syntactic parsing
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13076
Abstract: Children often interpret first noun phrases (NP1s) as agents, which improves comprehension of actives but hinders passives. While children sometimes withhold the agent-first bias, the reasons remain unclear. The current study tests the hypothesis that… read more here.
Keywords: agent first; influences discourse; discourse effects; effects children ... See more keywords
Explainability of neural networks for child language: Agent-First strategy in comprehension of Korean active transitive construction.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.13405
Abstract: This study investigates how neural networks address the properties of children's linguistic knowledge, with a focus on the Agent-First strategy in comprehension of an active transitive construction in Korean. We develop various neural-network models and… read more here.
Keywords: neural networks; strategy; agent first; comprehension ... See more keywords
How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages
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DOI: 10.1353/lan.2019.0055
Abstract: Abstract:Agents have been claimed to be universally more prominent than verbal arguments with other thematic roles. Perhaps the strongest claim in this regard is that agents have a privileged role in language processing, specifically that… read more here.
Keywords: agent; agent first; universal agent; voice languages ... See more keywords