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A connectionist model of the retreat from verb argument structure overgeneralization

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A semantics-based approach to the "no negative evidence" problem

scientific article published on 28 July 2009

An Elicited-Production Study of Inflectional Verb Morphology in Child Finnish

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Ben Ambridge: 10 myths about psychology, debunked

TEDxYouth@Manchester

Chapter 8. Analogical structure mapping and the formation of abstract constructions

Children use statistics and semantics in the retreat from overgeneralization

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Children's Acquisition of the English Past-Tense: Evidence for a Single-Route Account From Novel Verb Production Data.

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Children's judgments of regular and irregular novel past-tense forms: new data on the English past-tense debate

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Comparing different accounts of inversion errors in children's non-subject wh-questions: 'What experimental data can tell us?'.

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Disentangling Effects of Input Frequency and Morphophonological Complexity on Children's Acquisition of Verb Inflection: An Elicited Production Study of Japanese

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD: Elicited production of passives

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Do as I say, not as I do: a lexical distributional account of English locative verb class acquisition

scientific article published on 21 June 2014

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

Experimental methods in studying child language acquisition

scientific article published on 03 January 2013

Horses for courses: When acceptability judgments are more suitable than structural priming (and vice versa).

scientific article published in January 2017

How do children restrict their linguistic generalizations? An (un-)grammaticality judgment study

scientific article published on 18 December 2012

How the input shapes the acquisition of verb morphology: Elicited production and computational modelling in two highly inflected languages

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Infinitives or bare stems? Are English-speaking children defaulting to the highest-frequency form?

scientific article published on 08 July 2013

Is Passive Priming Really Impervious to Verb Semantics? A High-Powered Replication of Messenger Et al. (2012)

scientific article published in 2022

Is Passive Syntax Semantically Constrained? Evidence From Adult Grammaticality Judgment and Comprehension Studies

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Is Structure Dependence an Innate Constraint? New Experimental Evidence From Children's Complex‐Question Production

scientific article published on January 2, 2008

Is Syntax Semantically Constrained? Evidence From a Grammaticality Judgment Study of Indonesian

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Is grammar spared in autism spectrum disorder? Data from judgments of verb argument structure overgeneralization errors

scientific article published on 6 June 2015

Lexical distributional cues, but not situational cues, are readily used to learn abstract locative verb-structure associations

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Preemption versus Entrenchment: Towards a Construction-General Solution to the Problem of the Retreat from Verb Argument Structure Overgeneralization

scientific article published on January 2014

Semantics versus statistics in the retreat from locative overgeneralization errors

scientific article published on 09 February 2012

Syntactic Representations Are Both Abstract and Semantically Constrained: Evidence From Children's and Adults' Comprehension and Production/Priming of the English Passive

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Testing a computational model of causative overgeneralizations: Child judgment and production data from English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and K’iche’

scientific article published in 2022

Testing an input-based account of children's errors with inflectional morphology: an elicited production study of Japanese

scientific article published on 11 May 2018

Testing the agreement/tense omission model using an elicited imitation paradigm

scientific article published in November 2006

The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure: Computational modeling and grammaticality judgments from adult and child speakers of English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

The development of abstract syntax: evidence from structural priming and the lexical boost

scientific article published on 19 July 2012

The effect of verb semantic class and verb frequency (entrenchment) on children's and adults' graded judgements of argument-structure overgeneralization errors

scientific article published on 20 February 2007

The retreat from locative overgeneralisation errors: a novel verb grammaticality judgment study

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The retreat from overgeneralization in child language acquisition: word learning, morphology, and verb argument structure

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The roles of word-form frequency and phonological neighbourhood density in the acquisition of Lithuanian noun morphology

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

The structure of working memory from 4 to 15 years of age.

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The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition

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Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming

scientific article published in 2021