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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
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Ambridge, Ben; Rowland, Caroline F.; Pine, Julian M. – Cognitive Science, 2008
According to Crain and Nakayama (1987), when forming complex yes/no questions, children do not make errors such as "Is the boy who smoking is crazy?" because they have innate knowledge of "structure dependence" and so will not move the auxiliary from the relative clause. However, simple recurrent networks are also able to avoid…
Descriptors: Children, Language Processing, Language Patterns, Linguistic Input