Young children’s sentence comprehension: Neural correlates of syntax-semantic competition

Highlights • Two-year-olds start to be sensitive to syntactic cues.• Interaction of syntax and semantics is high in very young children.• The reliance on syntactic cues shifts between the age of two and three.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Brain and Cognition

• Publication date

  2019-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.bandc.2018.09.003PMID 30442450PMCID 6565862
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