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Multiword Units Lead to Errors of Commission in Children's Spontaneous Production: "What Corpus Data Can Tell Us?*"
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McCauley, Stewart M.; Bannard, Colin; Theakston, Anna; Davis, Michelle; Cameron-Faulkner, Thea; Ambridge, Ben – Developmental Science, 2021
Psycholinguistic research over the past decade has suggested that children's linguistic knowledge includes dedicated representations for frequently-encountered multiword sequences. Important evidence for this comes from studies of children's production: it has been repeatedly demonstrated that children's rate of speech errors is greater for word…
Descriptors: Children, Speech, Familiarity, Language Processing