This review article presents evidence for the claim that frequency effects are pervasive in
children's first language acquisition, and hence constitute a phenomenon that any …

This article reviews the some of the most widely used methods used for studying children's
language acquisition including (1) spontaneous/naturalistic, diary, parental report data,(2) …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

Describes patterns of general communication development and of English specificity,
emphasizing individual patterns. This edition devotes more attention to individual …

This paper addresses the relationship between the frequency of morphological, lexical and
syntactic forms in the input and children's language acquisition. The problem of obtaining …

The prevalence of redundancy in the world languages has long puzzled language
researchers. It is especially surprising in light of the growing evidence on speakers' …

An essential computational component of the human language faculty is syntax as it
regulates how words are combined into sentences. Although its neuroanatomical basis is …

In the usage-based approach to children's language learning, language is seen as
emerging from children's preverbal communicative and cognitive skills. Children construct …

How do people learn to use language in creative but constrained ways? Experiment 1
investigates linguistic creativity by exposing adult participants to two novel word order …

During language comprehension we must rapidly determine the thematic roles of arguments
(who did what to whom) in order to semantically integrate the players into a single event and …