Infants aged 12 months use the gender feature in determiners to anticipate upcoming words: an eye-tracking study.
We investigated online early comprehension in Italian children aged 12 and 20 months, focusing on the role of morphosyntactic features (i.e., gender) carried by determiners in facilitating comprehension and anticipating upcoming words. A naturalistic eye-tracking procedure was employed, recording lo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Language Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 841 - 860 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jul2023
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