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Evidence for (shared) abstract structure underlying children’s short and full passives
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Messenger, Katherine, Branigan, Holly P. and McLean, Janet F. (2011) Evidence for (shared) abstract structure underlying children’s short and full passives. Cognition, 121 (2). pp. 268-274. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.003 ISSN 0010-0277.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.003
Abstract
In a syntactic priming paradigm, three- and four-year-old children and adults described transitive events after hearing thematically and lexically unrelated active and short passive prime descriptions. Both groups were more likely to produce full passive descriptions (the king is being scratched by the tiger) following short passive primes (the girls are being shocked) than active primes (the sheep is shocking the girl). These results suggest that by four, children have (shared) abstract syntactic representations for both short and full passives, contrary to previous proposals (e.g., Horgan, 1978).
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cognition | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0010-0277 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | November 2011 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 121 | ||||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 268-274 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.003 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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