Language development

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 …
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Young children fail to fully generalize a novel argument structure construction when exposed to the same input as older learners
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, …
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Construction learning in children with autism
Input effects within a constructionist framework
Constructionist approaches to language hypothesize that grammar can be learned from the input using domain-general mechanisms. This …
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Input effects within a constructionist framework