Jaya Nagpal

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jaya Nagpal is involved.

Article

Nagpal, Jaya and Elena Nicoladis 2009 Why are Noun-Verb-er compounds so difficult for English-speaking children? The Mental Lexicon 4:2, pp. 276–301 | Article

Preschool children who attempt novel NV-er compounds (like cat brusher) often misorder the noun and the verb, arguably based on sentential phrasal ordering (e.g., Clark, Hecht, & Mulford, 1986). In this study, we test this argument by replicating Clark’s prediction that children’s attempts will… read more