Frequency effects in language acquisition
Subtitle: defining the limits of frequency as an explanatory concept
By: edited by Insa Gülzow, Natalia Gagarina.
Contributors: Gülzow, Insa, 1967-; Gagarina, Natalia.
Series: Studies on language acquisition -- 32
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9783110196719
Subjects: Language acquisition; Frequency (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the frequency debate in studies of language acquisition / Insa Gülzow and Natalia Gagarina; title: What frequency can do and what it can't / Tom Roeper; title: The role of input frequency in article acquisition in early child Swedish / Ute Bohnacker; title: Testing the effects of frequency on the rate of learning / Tanja Kupisch; title: The acquisition of non-agent subjects in child Hebrew / Sigal Uziel-Karl and Nancy Budwig; title: The role of input frequency in early language production / Maja Savić and Darinka Andelković; title: Characteristics of maternal input in relation to vocabulary development in children learning German / Christina Kauschke and Gisela Klann-Delius; title: What happens when adults often use infinitives? / Natalia Gagarina; title: Structural versus frequency effects in L1 acquisition of the passive and impersonal in Serbian / Milja Djurkovic; title: The (non-) effect of input frequency on the acquisition of word order in Norwegian embedded clauses / Marit Westergaard and Kristine Bentzen; title: Factors determining the acquisition of animacy in Czech / Denisa Bordag; title: A note on acquisition in frequency-based accounts of binding phenomena / Jason Mattausch and Insa Gülzow; title: Principles, parameters and probabilities / Rosalind Thornton, Stephen Crain and Graciela Tesan; title: The role of frequency in language acquisition / Katherine Demuth; title: Counting grammars / Charles Yang.