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MacWhinney, Brian – First Language, 2020
Ambridge argues persuasively for the importance in language learning of a rich database of input exemplars. However, a fuller account must also consider the importance of on-line and developmental competition between rote exemplar-based storage and emergent patterns that can optimize retrieval. [For Ben Ambridge's "Against Stored…
Descriptors: Competition, Language Acquisition, Rote Learning, Models
Laws, Jacqueline – First Language, 2019
This corpus-based study provides a baseline of complex word usage patterns in the spontaneous speech of English preschool children to ascertain the characteristics of their derivative vocabulary before literacy development affects language skills. Frequencies of suffixed derivatives produced by (N = 243) children aged 2-5 and their caregivers were…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Word Frequency, Classification, Vocabulary Skills
Tomas, Ekaterina; van de Vijver, Ruben; Demuth, Katherine; Petocz, Peter – First Language, 2017
Morphophonological alternations can make target-like production of grammatical morphemes challenging due to changes in form depending on the phonological environment. This article explores the acquisition of morphophonological alternations involving the interacting patterns of vowel deletion and stress shift in Russian-speaking children (aged…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Morphemes
Lustigman, Lyle – First Language, 2015
The study aims to account for the distribution of finite versus non-finite verbs during a developmental period when children use both types of verb forms in contexts requiring finiteness. To meet this goal, longitudinal samples from three Hebrew-acquiring children (aged 1;4-2;6) are examined from the onset of verb production and across the…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphology (Languages), Verbs, Language Usage