Effects of Both Preemption and Entrenchment in the Retreat from Verb Overgeneralization Errors: Four Reanalyses, an Extended Replication, and a Meta-Analytic Synthesis

How do speakers avoid producing verb overgeneralization errors such as *'She covered paint onto the wall' or *'She poured the cup with water'? Five previous papers have found seemingly contradictory results concerning the role of 'statistical preemption' (competition fr...

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Main Authors: Ben Ambridge, Libby Barak, Elizabeth Wonnacott, Colin Bannard, Giovanni Sala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2018-07-01
Series:Collabra: Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.collabra.org/articles/133