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Input effects on the acquisition of a novel phrasal construction in five year olds
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Wonnacott, Elizabeth, Boyd, Jeremy K., Thomson, Jennifer and Goldberg, Adele E. (2012) Input effects on the acquisition of a novel phrasal construction in five year olds. Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 66 (Number 3). pp. 458-478. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2011.11.004 ISSN 0749-596X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2011.11.004
Abstract
The present experiments demonstrate that children as young as five years old (M = 5;2) generalize beyond their input on the basis of minimal exposure to a novel argument structure construction. The novel construction that was used involved a non-English phrasal pattern: VN1N2, paired with a novel abstract meaning: N2 approaches N1. At the same time, we find that children are keenly sensitive to the input: they show knowledge of the construction after a single day of exposure but this grows stronger after three days; also, children generalize more readily to new verbs when the input contains more than one verb.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Language acquisition, Language awareness in children, Language transfer (Language learning), Children -- Language, Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase, Verbal ability in children, Languages, Artificial -- Study and teaching | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Memory and Language | ||||
Publisher: | Academic Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0749-596X | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 66 | ||||
Number: | Number 3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 458-478 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jml.2011.11.004 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 December 2015 |
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