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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Main Author: Gamper Jana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-04-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0001