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Similarity-Based Interference and the Acquisition of Adjunct Control.

Juliana Gerard¹, Jeffrey Lidz², Shalom Zuckerman³

¹School of Communication and Media, Ulster University, Jordanstown, United Kingdom.

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Summary

Preschoolers struggle with sentence interpretation due to similarity-based interference, not grammar errors. Processing sentence complexity, not grammatical rules, impacts children's understanding of adjunct control.

Keywords:

adjunct control anaphora binding intervention language acquisition similarity-based interference

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Developmental Psychology
Linguistics

Background:

Children exhibit non-adultlike interpretation of adjunct control sentences.
Previous studies focused on grammatical sources for children's errors.
Extragrammatical factors remain underexplored in adjunct control acquisition.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the role of extragrammatical factors in children's adjunct control errors.
To determine if similarity-based interference affects sentence processing in young children.
To explore the impact of antecedent-intervening noun phrase similarity on interpretation.

Main Methods:

Two comprehension experiments were conducted.
Participants included preschool-aged children.
Similarity between antecedents and intervening noun phrases (gender, number marking) was manipulated.

Main Results:

Error rates increased with higher similarity between antecedent and intervening noun phrases.
Similarity in gender and number marking both contributed to increased errors.
Findings suggest processing limitations rather than grammatical deficits.

Conclusions:

Difficulties in adjunct control acquisition are partly explained by similarity-based interference.
Sentence processing mechanisms, similar to those in adults, underlie these difficulties.
Extragrammatical factors play a significant role in children's language acquisition.