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A-adjectives, statistical preemption, and the evidence: Reply to Yang (2015)
A certain class of English adjectives known as
a
-adjectives resist appearing attributively as prenominal modifiers (e.g. ??
the afraid …
Adele E. Goldberg
,
Jeremy Boyd
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The association between aerobic fitness and language processing in children: Implications for academic achievement
Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) have been instrumental for discerning the relationship between children’s aerobic fitness and …
Mark R. Scudder
,
Kara D. Federmeier
,
Lauren B. Raine
,
Jeremy Boyd
,
Charles H. Hillman
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Statistical preemption
Preemption is one of two hypotheses (the other being entrenchment, described below) that claim that children learn grammatical …
Jeremy Boyd
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Adult learners use both entrenchment and preemption to infer grammatical constraints
Learners acquire grammatical constraints (e.g., the knowledge that
giggle
’s use in
The joke giggled me
is ungrammatical) in part …
Jeremy Boyd
,
Farrell Ackerman
,
Marta Kutas
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Young children fail to fully generalize a novel argument structure construction when exposed to the same input as older learners
The present study exposed five-year-olds (
M
= 5;2), seven-year-olds (
M
= 7;6) and adults (
M
= 22;4) to instances of a novel phrasal …
Jeremy Boyd
,
Adele E. Goldberg
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Input effects on the acquisition of a novel phrasal construction in 5 year olds
The present experiments demonstrate that children as young as five years old (
M
= 5;2) generalize beyond their input on the basis of …
Elizabeth Wonnacott
,
Jeremy Boyd
,
Jennifer Thomson
,
Adele E. Goldberg
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Construction learning in children with autism
While much research has been focused on how social deficits impede autistics’ language, little work has considered how other, …
Matt A. Johnson
,
Jeremy Boyd
,
Adele E. Goldberg
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Learning what not to say: The role of statistical preemption and categorization in a-adjective production
A persistent mystery in language acquisition is how speakers are able to learn seemingly arbitrary distributional restrictions. This …
Jeremy Boyd
,
Adele E. Goldberg
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Linking rule acquisition in novel phrasal constructions
All natural languages rely on sentence-level form-meaning associations (i.e., linking rules) to encode propositional content about who …
Jeremy Boyd
,
Erin A. Gottschalk
,
Adele E. Goldberg
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Input effects within a constructionist framework
Constructionist approaches to language hypothesize that grammar can be learned from the input using domain-general mechanisms. This …
Jeremy Boyd
,
Adele E. Goldberg
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