Jeff Lidz and Laurel Perkins chair symposium at Society for Research in Child Development
April 09, 2021

Infant syntax above the word level.
April 9 at the Society for Research in Cognitive Development, Jeff Lidz and alum Laurel Perkins *19 lead discussion at a symposium that they designed for the meeting - "Beyond categories: Infant syntax above the word level" - featuring three talks on early syntactic development:
Laurel Perkins & Jeffrey Lidz - Non-Local Syntactic Dependencies in Infancy: Wh-Question Representations Develop Between 14- and 18-Months
Emeryse Emond & Rushen Shi - Hierarchical Structural Knowledge: Evidence from Toddlers’ Understanding of Binding Principles
Letícia Schiavon Kolberg, Alex de Carvalho & Anne Christophe - Cross-Linguistic Evidence for the Role of Phrasal Prosody in Constraining Parsing in Young Children