DO TWO AND THREE YEAR OLD CHILDREN USE AN INCREMENTAL FIRST-NP-AS-AGENT BIAS TO PROCESS ACTIVE TRANSITIVE AND PASSIVE SENTENCES?: A PERMUTATION ANALYSIS.

Do two and three year old children use an incremental first-NP-as-agent bias to process active transitive and passive sentences?: A permutation analysis.

We used eye-tracking to investigate if and when children show an incremental bias to assume that the first noun phrase in a sentence is the agent (first-NP-as-agent bias) while processing the meaning of English active and passive transitive sentences.We also investigated whether children can override this bias to successfully distinguish active fro

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