This review investigates empirical evidence for different theoretical proposals regarding the
retreat from overgeneralization errors in three domains: word learning (eg,* doggie to refer …

Recognising the grammatical categories of words is a necessary skill for the acquisition of
syntax and for on-line sentence processing. The syntactic and semantic context of the word …

Children learn their native language by exposure to their linguistic and communicative
environment, but apparently without requiring that their mistakes be corrected. Such learning …

We present a hierarchical Bayesian framework for modeling the acquisition of verb
argument constructions. It embodies a domain-general approach to learning higher-level …

How children go about learning the general regularities that govern language, as well as
keeping track of the exceptions to them, remains one of the challenging open questions in …

This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from;
how it relates to primate communication; how and why it evolved; how it came to be …

How do children eventually come to avoid the production of overgeneralisation errors, in
particular, those involving the dative (eg,* I said her “no”)? The present study addressed this …

This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in
linguistics: learnability. The authors, from different backgrounds—-linguistics, philosophy …

Debates concerning the types of representations that aid reading acquisition have often
been influenced by the relationship between measures of early phonological awareness …

In this thesis I explore and formalize the view that grammar learning is driven by meaningful
language use in context. On this view, the goal of a first language learner is to become a …