Verb Variability and Morphosyntactic Priming With Typically Developing 2- and 3-Year-Olds

Conclusions Typically developing children do indeed make use of lexical variability in their linguistic input to help them extract and generalize abstract grammatical rules. They can do this quite quickly, with relatively stable, robust learning occurring after a single optimally variable input session. With reduced variability, learning does not occur.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research