19 month-olds represent and incrementally parse filler-gap dependencies

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Join me in my zoom room during poster session C! https://umd.zoom.us/my/minahirzel Adults process wh- object questions incrementally and predictively: they integrate fronted wh-phrases immediately upon encountering their anticipated position, as evidenced by filled-gap effects. Atkinson et al., (2018) argues that 5 year-olds don’t show filled-gap effects. By separating active-filling and incremental integration, the current study shows that 19 month-olds interpret the fronted wh-phrase as the direct object upon hearing the verb in sentences like: what is she wiping with the tig? (where tig is a novel noun). This demonstrates that, before age 2, infants rapidly deploy their knowledge of argument structure to interpret non-local arguments.

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