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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Infants detect syntactic relations via non-adjacent dependencies (NADs).
  • Learning NADs is thought to shift from implicit to controlled after age 2.
  • Previous research showed 6-11-year-olds learn NADs using a serial reaction time (SRT) task.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate non-adjacent dependency (NAD) learning in younger children (4-8 years).
  • To adapt an experimental paradigm for remote, web-based data collection.
  • To assess NAD learning sensitivity and transfer in early childhood.

Main Methods:

  • Adapted a word-monitoring serial reaction time (SRT) task in a game-like, web-based setting.
  • Exposed 52 children (4-8 years) to Italian phrases with NADs.
  • Assessed NAD learning via reaction times and a stem completion task for rule transfer.

Main Results:

  • Children aged 4-8 years demonstrated sensitivity to NADs.
  • Observed expected differences in reaction times in the SRT task.
  • Children successfully transferred the NAD rule in the stem completion task, despite data variability.

Conclusions:

  • Young children (4-8 years) can learn non-adjacent dependencies (NADs).
  • Web-based, game-like settings are feasible for collecting developmental language data.
  • Findings contribute to understanding NAD dependency learning development in childhood.