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Knabe, Melina L.; Vlach, Haley A. – First Language, 2020
Ambridge argues that there is widespread agreement among child language researchers that learners store linguistic abstractions. In this commentary the authors first argue that this assumption is incorrect; anti-representationalist/exemplar views are pervasive in theories of child language. Next, the authors outline what has been learned from this…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Language Acquisition, Models
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Nicoladis, Elena; Marentette, Paula; Navarro, Samuel – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
Previous studies have shown that older children gesture more while telling a story than younger children. This increase in gesture use has been attributed to increased story complexity. In adults, both narrative complexity and imagery predict gesture frequency. In this study, we tested the strength of three predictors of children's gesture use in…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Contrastive Linguistics, Generalization, Predictor Variables
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Yang, Charles; Montrul, Silvina – Second Language Research, 2017
We study the learnability problem concerning the dative alternations in English (Baker, 1979; Pinker, 1989). We consider how first language learners productively apply the double-object and to-dative constructions ("give the book to library"/"give the library the book"), while excluding negative exceptions ("donate the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Databases, Linguistic Input
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Stewart, Ian; McElwee, John; Ming, Siri – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2013
Language generativity can be described as the ability to produce sentences never before said, and to understand sentences never before heard. One process often cited as underlying language generativity is response generalization. However, though the latter seems to promise a technical understanding of the former at a process level, an…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Generalization, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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Owen, Amanda J.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Child Language, 2007
Current views on the acquisition of PRO can roughly be divided into two areas: lexical and syntactic accounts. We present data on one verb, "decide," that yields data that not only differs from the data for other similar verbs with the same children, but does not lend itself easily to either type of account. Data from a sentence elicitation task…
Descriptors: Verbs, Child Language, Children, Language Acquisition
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Miccio, Adele W.; Powell, Thomas W. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Generalization refers to the extension of learned behaviours to novel conditions, and it is one of the criteria by which the effectiveness and efficiency of a remediation programme may be judged. This article extracts principles of generalization from the treatment literature, and provides examples of how this information may be used to help guide…
Descriptors: Generalization, Group Activities, Group Therapy, Summer Programs
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Carabine, Bob – Journal of Child Language, 1991
Describes a study in which an extensive fuzzy boundary was identified within the adult extension of two exemplary object-words, "dog" and "ball." It is argued that there has been an underestimation in previous research of the degree of correspondence that exists between child and adult extension. (33 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Comparative Analysis, Generalization