The role of case and animacy in bi-and monolingual children’s sentence interpretation in German: a developmental perspective
German-speaking children appear to have a strong N1-bias when interpreting non-canonical OVSsentences. During sentence interpretation, especially unambiguous accusative and dative case markers (den ‘the-ACC’ and dem ‘the-DAT’) weaken the N1-bias and help building up sentence interpretation strategie...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2019-04-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0001 |