Effects of semantic plausibility, syntactic complexity and n-gram frequency on children's sentence repetition.
Theories of language processing differ with respect to the role of abstract syntax and semantics vs surface-level lexical co-occurrence (n-gram) frequency. The contribution of each of these factors has been demonstrated in previous studies of children and adults, but none have investigated them join...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Language Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 261 - 285 |
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Cambridge University Press
Mar2021
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