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Direct linkOnnis, Luca; Waterfall, Heidi R.; Edelman, Shimon – Cognition, 2008
Variation set structure--partial overlap of successive utterances in child-directed speech--has been shown to correlate with progress in children's acquisition of syntax. We demonstrate the benefits of variation set structure directly: in miniature artificial languages, arranging a certain proportion of utterances in a training corpus in variation…
Descriptors: Cues, Syntax, Artificial Languages, Language Acquisition
