Lexical frequency and exemplar-based learning effects in language acquisition: evidence from sentential complements

Language Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 132-142

  Kidd, Evan ^a,c   Lieven, Elena V M ^a,b   Tomasello, Michael ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exemplar based learning; Finite sentential complements; Usage based language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350780690     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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