Agrammatism is a disorder of language production characterized by short, simplified
sentences, the omission of function words, an increased use of nouns over verbs and a …

This second edition of Child Psychology reflects the increasingly sophisticated and varied
research methods used to examine the highly complex interactions contributing to children's …

Does child-directed language differ from adult-directed language in ways that might facilitate
word learning? Associative structure (the probability that a word appears with its free …

Some individuals with aphasia preferably use semantically general light verbs, whereas
others prefer semantically specific heavy verbs. This study aimed to test Gordon and Dell's …

In language acquisition, children assume that syntax and semantics reliably map onto each
other, and they use these mappings to guide their inferences about novel word meanings …

Background Light verbs are highly frequent and semantically impoverished words. It is
currently not known whether light verb production in discourse tasks differs by age or for …

This paper is a longitudinal investigation of adjective use by children aged 1; 8− 2; 8,
speaking Dutch, German, French, Hebrew, and Turkish, and by their caregivers. Each …

Most evidence concerning cross-linguistic variation in noun bias, the preponderance of
nouns in early expressive lexicons (Gentner, 1982), has come from comparisons of …

In order to facilitate the instruction and acquisition of EFL writing, this paper compares the
uses of the light verb get in English writing by Chinese and L1 undergraduates by drawing …

Background: This study has a twofold goal. First, it aims to improve the understanding of the
impact of dementia of type Alzheimer's disease (AD) on different aspects of the lexicon …