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English-Speaking Children's Comprehension of Relative Clauses: Evidence for General-Cognitive and Language-Specific Constraints on Development
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Children must possess some ability to process input in a meaningful manner to acquire language. The present study reports on data from an experiment investigating 3- to 5-year-old English-speaking children's understanding of restrictive relative clauses manipulated for embeddedness and focus. The results of the study showed that English-speaking children acquire right-branching before center-embedded structures. Comparisons made with data from Portuguese-speaking children suggest general-cognitive and language-specific constraints on development, and with respect to English, a "clause expansion" approach to processing in development.
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- Authors
- Kidd, E., & Bavin, E. L.
- Affiliations
- La Trobe University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Kidd, Evan
- Venue
- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
- Published
- 2002-11
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 599-617
- ISSN
- 0090-6905 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-6555
- OpenAlex
- W294487447
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 2.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Keywords
- relative clauses, restrictive relative clauses, child language acquisition, embeddedness, focus, Portuguese-speaking children, English-speaking children
- MeSH terms
- Child, Preschool, Cognition, Female, Humans, Language, Linguistics, Male, Speech Perception
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