title: Increasing Flexibility in Children's Online Processing of Grammatical and Nonce Determiners in Fluent Speech.
abstract: Two experiments using online speech processing measures with 18- to 36-month-olds extended research by Gerken & McIntosh (1993) showing that young children's comprehension is disrupted when the grammatical determiner in a noun phrase is replaced with a nonce determiner (the car vs. po car). In Expt. 1, 18-month-olds were slower and less accurate to identify familiar nouns on nonce-article than grammatical-article trials, although older children who produced determiners in their own speech showed no disruption. However, when tested on novel words in Expt. 2, even linguistically advanced 34-month-olds had greater difficulty identifying familiar as well as newly learned object names preceded by a nonce article. Children's success in "listening through" an uninformative functor-like nonce syllable before a familiar noun was related to their level of grammatical competence, but their attention to the nonce article also varied with lexical familiarity and the overall redundancy of the processing context.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stanford University.
authors.forename: Renate
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zangl
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fernald
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