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Complex grammar in English: A snapshot of comprehension in children aged 5 to 8

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dc.contributor.authorJanke, Vikki
dc.contributor.authorChamorro Galán, María Gloria
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-01T10:41:44Z
dc.date.available2025-10-01T10:41:44Z
dc.date.issued2025-07-14
dc.descriptionThis is the accepted manuscript of the article. The registered version was first published in First Language (2025), is available online at the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251347708
dc.descriptionEste es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo. La versión registrada fue publicada por primera vez en First Language (2025), está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251347708
dc.descriptionThis research was funded by a British Academy Grant (SRG2223\230847) awarded to both authors.
dc.description.abstractOur study makes an empirical contribution to questions relating to the developmental trajectory of four examples of English complex grammar: subject and object control, subject and object relative clauses, long passives and seem-raising constructions with and without an overt experiencer argument. We tested children’s comprehension of all seven sentence sets at the same point in time using a picture-selection task. Forty-five children (20 girls) from three Year groups (1, 2 and 3) with a mean age of 6.3, 7.4 and 8.3 years participated. The three groups scored at ceiling on subject relatives and on raising without an experiencer, and there were Year differences in order of age for object and subject control. Subject control showed a predictably delayed pattern and success with it correlated positively with verb-knowledge scores. However, all Year groups performed less well – with no differences between Years – on passives, object relatives, and raising with an experiencer, suggesting that even at age 8, these constructions were not fully comprehended. The most problematic construction was raising with an experiencer, where all Years achieved a mean score of 3/6 or below. We discuss this data pattern in relation to four grammatical properties (empty categories, displacement, intervention, word order), frequency and the lexical idiosyncrasies of some of the verbs. With respect to the grammatical properties, we ask whether certain combinations are more difficult for children to navigate than others.en
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dc.identifier.citationJanke, V., & Chamorro, G. (2025). Complex grammar in English: A snapshot of comprehension in children aged 5 to 8. First Language, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251347708
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251347708
dc.identifier.issn0142-7237 | eISSN 1740-2344
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/30299
dc.journal.titleFirst Language
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSAGE
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Filología
dc.relation.departmentFilologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas
dc.relation.projectidinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant/SRG2223\230847/EN/Grammatical Puzzles: A Cross-linguistic Perspective on Children’s Development
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject57 Lingüística
dc.subject.keywordsenglish complex grammaren
dc.subject.keywordscontrolen
dc.subject.keywordsgenerative grammaren
dc.subject.keywordspassivesen
dc.subject.keywordsraisingen
dc.subject.keywordsrelative clausesen
dc.titleComplex grammar in English: A snapshot of comprehension in children aged 5 to 8en
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