Syntactic adaptation and word learning in children and adults
Syntactic adaptation may be a key mechanism underlying children’s learning of novel words. Havron et al. (2019) exposed French-speaking children (ages 3 to 4) to a speaker biased toward using either familiar verbs or familiar nouns in a syntactic context which permitted both structures. This prime l...
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| Language: | English |
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Carnegie Mellon University Library Publishing Service
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Language Development Research |
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| Online Access: | https://lps.library.cmu.edu/LDR/article/id/608/ |