Polish children's productivity with case marking: the role of regularity, type frequency, and phonological diversity [PDF]
, 2006 Polish-speaking children aged from 2;4, to 4;8 and 16 adult controls participated in a nonce-word inflection experiment testing their ability to use the genitive, dative and accusative inflections productively.
Dabrowska, Ewa, Szczerbinski, Marcin
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On the Relation Between Grammatical Number and Cardinal Numbers in Development
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 This mini-review focuses on the question of how the grammatical number system of a child’s language may help the child learn the meanings of cardinal number words (e.g., ‘one’ and ‘two’).
Barbara W Sarnecka
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, 2008 Interaction Grammar (IG) is a grammatical formalism based on the notion of polarity. Polarities express the resource sensitivity of natural languages by modelling the distinction between saturated and unsaturated syntactic structures.
Bruno Guillaume +5 more
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Processing of regular and irregular past tense morphology in highly proficient second language learners of English: a self-paced reading study [PDF]
, 2012 Dual-system models suggest that English past tense morphology involves two processing routes: rule application for regular verbs and memory retrieval for irregular verbs (Pinker, 1999).
Marinis, Theodoros, Pliatsikas, Christos
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The Perfective Past Tense in Greek Adolescents with Down Syndrome [PDF]
, 2009 This study investigates the ability of a group of eight Greek-speaking adolescents with Down Syndrome (DS) (aged 12.1-18.7) to handle the perfective past tense using an acceptability judgement task.
Clahsen, Harald, Stathopoulou, Nikolitsa
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The morphology of tense and aspect in Nama, a Papuan language of southern New Guinea
Open Linguistics, 2015 This paper describes the complex tense and aspect morphology in Nama, a previously undocumented Papuan language of southern New Guinea. Tense/aspect suffixes followed by agent/actor referencing suffixes occur in combination with one of two sets of ...
Siegel Jeff
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Blind insight: metacognitive discrimination despite chance task performance [PDF]
, 2014 Blindsight and other examples of unconscious knowledge and perception demonstrate dissociations between judgment accuracy and metacognition: Studies reveal that participants’ judgment accuracy can be above chance while their confidence ratings fail ...
Barrett, Adam B +4 more
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The use of plural form of the noun in the Finnish language
Финно-угорский мир, 2019 The focus of the study is the category of plurality of the noun in the Finnish language. The article studies plural forms of the noun in the Finnish language.
Nadezda S. Bratchikova
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Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon [PDF]
, 2015 This article uses instrumental data from natural speech to examine the phenomenon of pause placement within the verbal word in Dalabon, a polysynthetic Australian language of Arnhem Land.
Evans, Nicholas +2 more
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A Link Between Local Enrichment and Scalar Diversity
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Several recent studies have shown that different scalar terms are liable to give rise to scalar inferences at different rates (Doran et al., 2009, 2012; van Tiel et al., 2016).
Chao Sun +3 more
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