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