Why are some verbs learned before other verbs? Effects of input frequency and structure on children's early verb use

LR Naigles, E Hoff-Ginsberg - Journal of child language, 1998 - cambridge.org
… of nouns points to input frequency and word meaning (as it interfaces with children’s conceptual
development) as factors that influence why some words are learned before other words. …

On learning the past tenses of English verbs

DE Rumelhart, JL McClelland - … : Critical Concepts in Psychology, 1986 - books.google.com
… system to learn more slowly so the effect of regular verbs on … model is building up extra
excitatory connections from input Units … Before discussing the implications of these kinds of results …

Input factors in early verb acquisition: Do word frequency and word order variability of verbs matter?

A Kieburg, P Schulz - … in the Input: Studies in the Acquisition of Word Order, 2011 - Springer
… These facts among others should make verb learning difficult… Before we look at the input
properties of the syntactic and … The Friedman test indicated a highly significant effect of verb

Input and first language acquisition: Evaluating the role of frequency

E Lieven - Lingua, 2010 - Elsevier
… , we find frequency effects both for correct learning and for … in which me appears before the
verb. For at least one of the … of learning the relationship between various forms of the verb GO, …

Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax

AL Theakston, EVM Lieven, JM Pine… - Journal of child …, 2004 - cambridge.org
… confounded with input frequency, in the area of verb learning, it may … of verbs over and above
the effects of verb frequency. If … more specific verbs in some structures before they begin to …

Understanding how input matters: Verb learning and the footprint of universal grammar

J Lidz, H Gleitman, L Gleitman - Cognition, 2003 - Elsevier
… In the present paper, we examine the effects of input and … structure that learners bring into
the verb learning task. They … Before continuing on to the experimental section of the paper …

Counting nouns and verbs in the input: Differential frequencies, different kinds of learning?

CM Sandhofer, LB Smith, J Luo - Journal of child language, 2000 - cambridge.org
… simple learning theory, verbs should be learned before nouns … statistical structure of instances
of noun and verb distributions… The effects of type and token frequencies in both languages …

Construction learning as a function of frequency, frequency distribution, and function

NC Ellis, F Ferreira–Junior - The Modern language journal, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… This article considers effects of construction frequency, form, … linguistic constructions—verb
locative (VL), verb object locative (… verb seeds the construction, albeit with much earlier

Structure and meaning in the verb lexicon: Input for a syntax-aided verb learning procedure

C Fisher - Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
… These verbs seem to concern only the effect of the named … These criteria were used to select
verbs from a verb frequency list… before, some of these semantically derived clusters of verbs

[PDF][PDF] Why verbs are hard to learn

D Gentner - … meets word: How children learn verbs, 2006 - groups.psych.northwestern.edu
… understanding why children learn nouns before verbs. If … world than do verbs has important
implications for acquisition: it … nouns that occur with considerable lower frequency). By a year …