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Seamus Donnelly; Caroline Rowland; Franklin Chang; Evan Kidd – Cognitive Science, 2024
Prediction-based accounts of language acquisition have the potential to explain several different effects in child language acquisition and adult language processing. However, evidence regarding the developmental predictions of such accounts is mixed. Here, we consider several predictions of these accounts in two large-scale developmental studies…
Descriptors: Prediction, Error Patterns, Syntax, Priming
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Jacobs, Cassandra L.; Cho, Sun-Joo; Watson, Duane G. – Cognitive Science, 2019
Syntactic priming in language production is the increased likelihood of using a recently encountered syntactic structure. In this paper, we examine two theories of why speakers can be primed: error-driven learning accounts (Bock, Dell, Chang, & Onishi, 2007; Chang, Dell, & Bock, 2006) and activation-based accounts (Pickering &…
Descriptors: Priming, Syntax, Prediction, Linguistic Theory