Uninversion error in English-speaking children’s wh-questions: Blame it on the bigrams?

English-speaking children’s uninversion errors with wh-questions (e.g., *Who he can draw; c.f., Who can he draw?) are influenced by the surface frequency of individual bigrams and trigrams in the input, as predicted by input-based approaches. Production methods were used t...

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Main Authors: Alison Gummery, Anna Theakston, Ben Ambridge, Colin Bannard, Michelle Davis, Stewart McCauley, Thea Cameron-Faulkner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Carnegie Mellon University Library Publishing Service 2023-05-01
Series:Language Development Research
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Online Access:https://lps.library.cmu.edu/LDR/article/id/641/