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• Input frequency and lexical variability in phonological development: a survival analysis of word-initial cluster production.
  Authors: Ota M, Green SJ Abstract ABSTRACTAlthough it has been often hypothesized that children learn to produce new sound patterns first in frequently heard words, the available evidence in support of this claim is inconclusive. To re-examine this question, we conducted a survival analysis of word-initial consonant clusters produced by three children in the […]
• Children's ability to answer different types of questions.
  Authors: Salomo D, Lieven E, Tomasello M Abstract ABSTRACTYoung children answer many questions every day. The extent to which they do this in an adult-like way - following Grice's Maxim of Quantity by providing the requested information, no more no less - has been studied very little. In an experiment, we found that two-, three- and four-year-old childr […]
• Structure of child and adult past counterfactuals, and implications for acquisition of the construction.
  Authors: Crutchley A Abstract ABSTRACTChildren start producing if p, q conditionals relatively late. Past counterfactuals (PCFs), for example 'If she had shut the cage, the rabbit wouldn't have escaped', are particularly problematic for children; despite evidence of comprehension in the preschool years, children aged eleven are still making pr […]