Learning what not to say: The role of statistical preemption and categorization in a-adjective production

Language

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-83

  Boyd, Jeremy K ^a   Goldberg, Adele E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrenchment; Language acquisition; Negative evidence; Preemption; Reasoning; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051646092     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2011.0012     Document Type: Article

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