Frequency effects in language acquisition : defining the limits of frequency as an explanatory concept /
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007. |
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| Description: | vi, 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies on language acquisition ; 32 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6813274 |
Table of Contents:
- Introducing the frequency debate in studies of language acquisition
- Opening statement
- What frequency can do and what it can't
- The acquisition of determiners
- The role of input frequency in article acquisition in early child Swedish
- Testing the effects of frequency on the rate of learning: Determiner use in early French, German and Italian
- Input frequencies across development
- The acquisition of non-agent subjects in child Hebrew: The role of input
- The role of input frequency in early language production: Children's usage of Serbian prepositions
- Characteristics of maternal input in relation to vocabulary development in children learning German
- What happens when adults often use infinitives?
- Frequency mismatches between caregiver input and child language
- Structural versus frequency effects in L1 acquisition of the passive and impersonal in Serbian
- The (non-) effect of input frequency on the acquisition of word order in Norwegian embedded clauses
- Factors determining the acquisition of animacy in Czech
- (Non-)Frequentist perspectives within UG
- A note on acquisition in frequency-based accounts of binding phenomena
- Principles, parameters and probabilities
- Comments
- The role of frequency in language acquisition
- Counting grammars
- List of contributors
- Index
