TY  - JOUR
A1  - Silva, Renita
A1  - Gerth, Sabrina
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Morphological constraints in children's spoken language comprehension - a visual world study of plurals inside compounds in English
JF  - Cognition : international journal of cognitive science
N2  - Many previous studies have shown that the human language processor is capable of rapidly integrating information from different sources during reading or listening. Yet, little is known about how this ability develops from child to adulthood. To gain insight into how children (in comparison to adults) handle different kinds of linguistic information during on-line language comprehension, the current study investigates a well-known morphological phenomenon that is subject to both structural and semantic constraints, the plurals-in-compounds effect, i.e. the dislike of plural (specifically regular plural) modifiers inside compounds (e.g. rats eater). We examined 96 seven-to-twelve-year-old children and a control group of 32 adults measuring their eye-gaze changes in response to compound-internal plural and singular forms. Our results indicate that children rely more upon structural properties of language (in the present case, morphological cues) early in development and that the ability to efficiently integrate information from multiple sources takes time for children to reach adult-like levels.
KW  - Developmental morphology
KW  - Compounding
KW  - Visual world paradigm
KW  - Eye movements
KW  - Morphological processing
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.003
SN  - 0010-0277
SN  - 1873-7838
VL  - 129
IS  - 2
SP  - 457
EP  - 469
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - van de Koot, Hans
A1  - Silva, Renita
A1  - Felser, Claudia
A1  - Sato, Mikako
T1  - Does Dutch a-scrambling involve movement? Evidence from antecedent priming
JF  - The linguistic review
N2  - The present study focuses on A-scrambling in Dutch, a local word-order alternation that typically signals the discourse-anaphoric status of the scrambled constituent. We use cross-modal priming to investigate whether an A-scrambled direct object gives rise to antecedent reactivation effects in the position where a movement theory would postulate a trace. Our results indicate that this is not the case, thereby providing support for a base-generation analysis of A-scrambling in Dutch.
KW  - scrambling
KW  - movement
KW  - cross-modal priming
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2015-0010
SN  - 0167-6318
SN  - 1613-3676
VL  - 32
IS  - 4
SP  - 739
EP  - 776
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
CY  - Berlin
ER  -