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| Title: | Putting Children in Context |
| Authors: | Meroni, Luisa |
| Advisors: | Crain, Stephen |
| Department/Program: | Linguistics |
| Type: | Dissertation |
| Sponsors: | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) |
| Keywords: | Language, Linguistics (0290) |
| Issue Date: | 13-Jan-2005 |
| Abstract: | Studies of adult sentence processing have established that the referential context in which sentences are presented plays an immediate role in their interpretation, such that features of the referential context mitigate, and even eliminate, so-called 'garden-path' effects. The finding that the context ordinarily obviates garden path effects is compelling evidence for the Referential Theory, advanced originally by Crain and Steedman, (1985) and extended in Altmann and Steedman (1988).
Recent work by Trueswell, Sekerina, Hill and Logrip (1999) suggests, however, that children may not be as sensitive as adults to contextual factors in resolving structural ambiguities. This conclusion is not anticipated by the Referential Theory and it also runs counter to the Continuity Assumption, which supposes that children and adults access the same cognitive mechanisms in processing language.
The purpose of this work was to reexamine the observations that have led researchers to conclude that c... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2333 |
| Appears in Collections: | Linguistics Theses and Dissertations
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