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Havron, Naomi; Babineau, Mireille; Christophe, Anne – Developmental Science, 2021
Infants are able to use the contexts in which familiar words appear to guide their inferences about the syntactic category of novel words (e.g. 'This is a' + 'dax' -> dax = object). The current study examined whether 18-month-old infants can rapidly adapt these expectations by tracking the distribution of syntactic structures in their input. In…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Familiarity, Inferences