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Uncovering Knowledge of Core Syntactic and Semantic Principles in Individuals With Williams Syndrome
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We investigate knowledge of core syntactic and semantic principles in individuals with Williams Syndrome (WS). Our study focuses on the logico-syntactic properties of negation and disjunction (or) and tests knowledge of (a) core syntactic relations (scope and c-command), (b) core semantic relations (entailment relations and DeMorgan’s laws of propositional logic), and (c) the relationship between (a) and (b). We examine the performance of individuals with WS, children matched for mental age (MA), and typical adult native speakers of English. Performance on all conditions suggests that knowledge of (a-c) is present and engaged in all three groups. Results also indicate slightly depressed performance on (c) for the WS group, compared to MA, consistent with limitation in processing resources. Implications of these results for competing accounts of language development in WS, as well as for the relevance of WS to the study of cognitive architecture and development are discussed.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/15475440903507772
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21866219
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3159170
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Children's enrichments of conjunctive sentences in context
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In: Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models. Current Research in the Semantics/pragmatics Interface ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00652447 ; P. De Brabanter & M. Khissine. Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models. Current Research in the Semantics/pragmatics Interface, Emerald Group (Elsevier), pp.211-234, 2009 (2009)
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Scalar Implicatures: Experiments at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
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In: IRCS Technical Reports Series (2001)
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