Publication: The Agent Preference in Ontogeny: Predictability of Agent and Patient Roles in Child‐Directed Utterances Across Languages
The Agent Preference in Ontogeny: Predictability of Agent and Patient Roles in Child‐Directed Utterances Across Languages
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Huber, E., Küntay, A. C., Bickel, B., & Stoll, S. (2026). The Agent Preference in Ontogeny: Predictability of Agent and Patient Roles in Child‐Directed Utterances Across Languages. Cognitive Science, 50(1), e70147. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70147
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Language comprehension unfolds incrementally, requiring listeners to continually predict and revise interpretations. Comprehenders across very diverse languages show a consistent preference for agents, anticipating the agent (“the doer” of an action) more strongly than the patient (“the undergoer”). An unresolved question is how the preference develops in children given incomplete utterances and argument omission in their input. Here, we approach this question by quantifying the incremental predictability of semantic roles (agents vs.
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Huber, E., Küntay, A. C., Bickel, B., & Stoll, S. (2026). The Agent Preference in Ontogeny: Predictability of Agent and Patient Roles in Child‐Directed Utterances Across Languages. Cognitive Science, 50(1), e70147. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70147
