Antecedent Priming at Trace Positions in Children's Sentence Processing

Autor/inn/en	Roberts, Leah; Marinis, Theodore; Felser, Claudia; Clahsen, Harald
Titel	Antecedent Priming at Trace Positions in Children's Sentence Processing
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 36 (2007) 2, S.175-188 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-006-9038-3
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Short Term Memory; Cues; Language Processing; Children; Adults; Control Groups; Pictorial Stimuli; Tests; Psycholinguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Stichwort; Sprachverarbeitung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Fantasieanregung; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Psycholinguistik
Abstract	The present study examines whether children reactivate a moved constituent at its gap position and how children's more limited working memory span affects the way they process filler-gap dependencies. 46 5-7 year-old children and 54 adult controls participated in a cross-modal picture priming experiment and underwent a standardized working memory test. The results revealed a statistically significant interaction between the participants' working memory span and antecedent reactivation: High-span children (n = 19) and high-span adults (n = 22) showed evidence of antecedent priming at the gap site, while for low-span children and adults, there was no such effect. The antecedent priming effect in the high-span participants indicates that in both children and adults, dislocated arguments access their antecedents at gap positions. The absence of an antecedent reactivation effect in the low-span participants could mean that these participants required more time to integrate the dislocated constituent and reactivated the filler later during the sentence. (As Provided).
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