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Prosodic Constraints on Children’s Variable Production of Grammatical Morphemes by Katherine Demuth
Prosodic Constraints on Children's Variable Production of Grammatical Morphemes by Katherine Demuth (Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia) Language acquisition researchers have long observed that children's early use of grammatical morphemes is highly variable. It is generally thought that this is due to incomplete syntactic or semantic representations. However, recent crosslinguistic research has found that […]
Synergie in Language Acquisition by Mark Johnson
Synergie in Language Acquisition by Mark Johnson
Synergie in Language Acquisition by Mark Johnson (Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia) Each human language contains an unbounded number of different sentences. How can something so large and complex possibly be learnt? Over the past decade and a half we've learned how to define probability distributions over grammars and the linguistic structures they generate, […]
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What Freud got right about speech errors by Gary S. Dell
What Freud got right about speech errors by Gary S. Dell (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Most people associate Sigmund Freud with the assertion that speech errors reveal repressed thoughts, a claim that does not have a great deal of support. I will mention some other things that Freud said about slips, showing that these, […]
Social meaning and speech perception by Benjamin Munson
Social meaning and speech perception by Benjamin Munson
Social meaning and speech perception by Benjamin Munson (University of Minnesota, Etats-Unis) It is well established that listeners may categorize ambiguous sounds differently when they are led to believe something about the person who produced them, such as their age, social class, gender, or regional background (Hay, Drager & Nolan, 2006 ; McGowan 2011 ; […]