@article{SzendroiBernardBergeretal.2017,
  author    = {Szendroi, Kriszta and Bernard, Carline and Berger, Frauke and Gervain, Judit and H{\"o}hle, Barbara},
  title     = {Acquisition of prosodic focus marking by English, French, and German three-, four-, five- and six-year-olds},
  series = {Journal of child language},
  volume    = {45},
  journal   = {Journal of child language},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0305-0009},
  doi       = {10.1017/S0305000917000071},
  pages     = {219 -- 241},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Previous research on young children's knowledge of prosodic focus marking has revealed an apparent paradox, with comprehension appearing to lag behind production. Comprehension of prosodic focus is difficult to study experimentally due to its subtle and ambiguous contribution to pragmatic meaning. We designed a novel comprehension task, which revealed that three- to six-year-old children show adult-like comprehension of the prosodic marking of subject and object focus. Our findings thus support the view that production does not precede comprehension in the acquisition of focus. We tested participants speaking English, German, and French. All three languages allow prosodic subject and object focus marking, but use additional syntactic marking to varying degrees (English: dispreferred; German: possible; French preferred). French participants produced fewer subject marked responses than English participants. We found no other cross-linguistic differences. Participants interpreted prosodic focus marking similarly and in an adult-like fashion in all three languages.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SzendrőiSchumacherFritzscheetal.2017,
  author    = {Szendrői, Kriszta and Schumacher, Rebecca and Fritzsche, Tom and H{\"o}hle, Barbara},
  title     = {Acquisition of quantifier raising of a universal across an existential},
  series = {Glossa : a journal of general linguistics},
  volume    = {2},
  journal   = {Glossa : a journal of general linguistics},
  publisher = {Open Library of Humanities},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {2397-1835},
  pages     = {16},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Our paper reports an act out task with German 5- and 6-year olds and adults involving doubly-quantified sentences with a universal object and an existential subject. We found that 5- and 6-year olds allow inverse scope in such sentences, while adults do not. Our findings contribute to a growing body of research (e.g. Gualmini et al. 2008; Musolino 2009, etc.) showing that children are more flexible in their scopal considerations than initially proposed by the Isomorphism proposal (Lidz \& Musolino 2002; Musolino \& Lidz 2006). This result provides support for a theory of German, a "no quantifier raising"-language, in terms of soft violable constraints, or global economy terms (Bobaljik \& Wurmbrand 2012), rather than in terms of hard inviolable constraints or rules (Frey 1993). Finally, the results are compatible with Reinhart's (2004) hypothesis that children do not perform global interface economy considerations due to the increased processing associated with it.},
  language  = {en}
}