Experience and grammatical agreement: Statistical learning shapes number agreement production

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-164

  Haskell, Todd R ^a   Thornton, Robert ^b   MacDonald, Maryellen C ^c  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit learning; Language production; Subject verb agreement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING STYLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73449130030     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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