Frequency Sensitivity of Neural Responses to English Verb Argument Structure Violations

How are verb-argument structure preferences acquired? Children typically receive very little negative evidence, raising the question of how they come to understand the restrictions on grammatical constructions. Statistical learning theories propose stochastic patterns in the input contain sufficient...

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Main Authors: Jona Sassenhagen, Ryan Blything, Elena Lieven, Ben Ambridge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2018-10-01
Series:Collabra: Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.collabra.org/articles/87