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Consistent and cumulative effects of syntactic experience in children's sentence production : evidence for error-based implicit learning
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Branigan, Holly and Messenger, Katherine (2016) Consistent and cumulative effects of syntactic experience in children's sentence production : evidence for error-based implicit learning. Cognition, 157 . pp. 250-256. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.09.004 ISSN 0010-0277.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.09.004
Abstract
Error-based implicit learning models (e.g., Chang, Dell, & Bock, 2006) propose that a single learning mechanism underlies immediate and long-term effects of experience on children’s syntax. We test two key predictions of these models: That individual experiences of infrequent structures should yield both immediate and long-term facilitation, and that such learning should be consistent in individual speakers across time. Children (and adults) described transitive events in two picture-matching games, held a week apart. In both sessions, the experimenter’s immediately preceding syntax (active vs. passive) dynamically influenced children’s (and adults’) syntactic choices in an individually consistent manner. Moreover, children showed long-term facilitation, through an increased likelihood to produce passives in Session 2, with speakers who were most likely to immediately repeat passives in Session 1 being most likely to produce passives in Session 2. Our results are consistent with an error-based syntactic learning mechanism that operates across the lifespan.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education 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): | Children -- Language, Language acquisition, Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cognition | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0010-0277 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | December 2016 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 157 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 250-256 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.09.004 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 September 2016 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 September 2017 | ||||||||||
Funder: | Royal Society (Great Britain). Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (RSLSRF), Leverhulme Trust (LT). Postdoctoral Fellowship |
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