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Direct linkAmbridge, Ben; Blything, Ryan P. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
A central question in language acquisition is how children build linguistic representations that allow them to generalize verbs from one construction to another (e.g., "The boy gave a present to the girl" ? "The boy gave the girl a present"), whilst appropriately constraining those generalizations to avoid non-adultlike errors…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Verbs, Generalization
Tatsumi, Tomoko; Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M. – Cognitive Science, 2018
This study aims to disentangle the often-confounded effects of input frequency and morphophonological complexity in the acquisition of inflection, by focusing on simple and complex verb forms in Japanese. Study 1 tested 28 children aged 3;3-4;3 on stative (complex) and simple past forms, and Study 2 tested 30 children aged 3;5-5;3 on completive…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Morphology (Languages), Phonology, Morphemes
