Syntactic and Pragmatic Factors in Children’s Comprehension of Cleft Constructions
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DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2017.1316725
Abstract: ABSTRACT We present a series of experiments investigating English-speaking children’s comprehension of it-clefts and wh-pseudoclefts. Previous developmental work has found children to have asymmetric difficulties interpreting object clefts. We show that these difficulties disappear when… read more here.
Keywords: syntactic pragmatic; pragmatic factors; children comprehension; factors children ... See more keywords
Encoding Motion Events During Language Production: Effects of Audience Design and Conceptual Salience
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13077
Abstract: We investigate the extent to which pragmatic versus conceptual factors can affect a speaker's decision to mention or omit different components of an event. In the two experiments, we demonstrate the special role of pragmatic… read more here.
Keywords: motion events; audience; pragmatic factors; audience design ... See more keywords