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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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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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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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