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Theakston, Anna L.; Ibbotson, Paul; Freudenthal, Daniel; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Science, 2015
Productivity is a central concept in the study of language and language acquisition. As a test case for exploring the notion of productivity, we focus on the noun slots of verb frames, such as __"want"__, __"see"__, and __"get"__. We develop a novel combination of measures designed to assess both the flexibility and…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Creativity, Semantics
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Krajewski, Grzegorz; Theakston, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Tomasello, Michael – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
The two main models of children's acquisition of inflectional morphology--the Dual-Mechanism approach and the usage-based (schema-based) approach--have both been applied mainly to languages with fairly simple morphological systems. Here we report two studies of 2-3-year-old Polish children's ability to generalise across case-inflectional endings…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphology (Languages), Polish, Child Language