Effects of Sentence Structure on Sentence Elicited Imitation Responses

Hudgins, Jo Carol; Cullinan, Walter L.

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“…Indeed, this was the pattern observed in one recent study where the same children completed these two tasks with the same stimuli 61. One way to increase the sensitivity of this method (or indeed elicited production62) is to use as the dependent variable not only a categorical measure (e.g., incorrect/correct) but a continuous measure such as reaction time (i.e., latency to begin the repetition)63 or the duration of the repeated utterance (with the rationale being that easier utterances are produced more fluently, and hence are shorter in duration3,64).…”

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Experimental methods in studying child language acquisition

Ambridge

Rowland

2013

WIRES Cognitive Science

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This article reviews the some of the most widely used methods used for studying children's language acquisition including (1) spontaneous/naturalistic, diary, parental report data, (2) production methods (elicited production, repetition/elicited imitation, syntactic priming/weird word order), (3) comprehension methods (act-out, pointing, intermodal preferential looking, looking while listening, conditioned head turn preference procedure, functional neuroimaging) and (4) judgment methods (grammaticality/acceptability judgments, yes-no/truthvalue judgments). The review outlines the types of studies and age-groups to which each method is most suited, as well as the advantage and disadvantages of each. We conclude by summarising the particular methodological considerations that apply to each paradigm and to experimental design more generally. These include (1) choosing an age-appropriate task that makes communicative sense (2) motivating children to co-operate, (3) choosing a between-/within-subjects design, (4) the use of novel items (e.g., novel verbs), (5) fillers, (6) blocked, counterbalanced and random presentation, (7) the appropriate number of trials and participants, (8) drop-out rates (9) the importance of control conditions, (10) choosing a sensitive dependent measure (11) classification of responses, and (12) using an appropriate statistical test.

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Section: Experimental Production Methodsmentioning

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Experimental methods in studying child language acquisition

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Rowland

2013

WIRES Cognitive Science

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“…The latter is regarded as more complex as it involves non‐canonical word order and a long‐distance dependency between cat i and _ i . This manipulation affects SR error rates in children (Kidd et al 2007), language‐typical adults (Hudgins and Cullinan 1978; Panagos and Prelock 1982) and language‐impaired adolescents (Riches et al 2010). Importantly as sentence length is controlled, this effect cannot be explained in terms of overall information load in STM.…”

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Sentence repetition in children with specific language impairment: an investigation of underlying mechanisms

Riches

2012

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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The data support a multifaceted view of SR with a role for syntactic knowledge, WM and STM. 'Redintegration', whereby long-term memory representations are used to maintain information in short-term memory, is likely to be a key process. Specific errors in the SLI group are likely to reflect difficulties with underlying syntactic representations. Children with SLI may be more dependent on phonological STM than typically developing children.

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“…There is considerable psycholinguistic evidence that English OR clauses are more difficult than SRs (e.g., Ford, 1983;Hakes, Evans, & Brannon, 1976;Holmes & O'Regan, 1981;Hudgins & Cullinan, 1978;King & Just, 1991;Larkin & Burns, 1977): They are processed more slowly and often result in poorer comprehension. Consider the pair in (7), from King and Just (1991), in which each relative clause modifies the subject of the main clause.…”

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An Activation‐Based Model of Sentence Processing as Skilled Memory Retrieval

2005

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We present a detailed process theory of the moment-by-moment working-memory retrievals and associated control structure that subserve sentence comprehension. The theory is derived from the application of independently motivated principles of memory and cognitive skill to the specialized task of sentence parsing. The resulting theory construes sentence processing as a series of skilled associative memory retrievals modulated by similarity-based interference and fluctuating activation. The cognitive principles are formalized in computational form in the Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational (ACT-R) architecture, and our process model is realized in ACT-R. We present the results of 6 sets of simulations: 5 simulation sets provide quantitative accounts of the effects of length and structural interference on both unambiguous and garden-path structures. A final simulation set provides a graded taxonomy of double center embeddings ranging from relatively easy to extremely difficult. The explanation of center-embedding difficulty is a novel one that derives from the model's complete reliance on discriminating retrieval cues in the absence of an explicit representation of serial order information. All fits were obtained with only 1 free scaling parameter fixed across the simulations; all other parameters were ACT-R defaults. The modeling results support the hypothesis that fluctuating activation and similarity-based interference are the key factors shaping working memory in sentence processing. We contrast the theory and empirical predictions with several related accounts of sentence-processing complexity.

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Effects of Sentence Structure on Sentence Elicited Imitation Responses

Cited by 8 publications

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Experimental methods in studying child language acquisition

Experimental methods in studying child language acquisition

Sentence repetition in children with specific language impairment: an investigation of underlying mechanisms

An Activation‐Based Model of Sentence Processing as Skilled Memory Retrieval

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