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    "pk": 25764,
    "title": "Toddlers Always Get the Last Word: Recency biases in early verbal behavior",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "A popular conception about language development is that comprehension\nprecedes production. Although this is certainly\ntrue during the earliest stages of phonological development,\nonce a child possesses the basic articulatory skills required for\nimitation, it need not necessarily be the case. A child could\nproduce a word without possessing the fully formed lexical\nrepresentation through imitation. In some cases, such as in\nresponse to questions containing fixed choices, this behavior\ncould be mistaken for a deeper understanding of the words’\nsemantic content. In this paper, we present evidence that 2-\nto 3-year-old children exhibit a robust recency bias when verbally\nresponding to two-alternative choice questions (i.e., they\nselect the second, most recently mentioned option), possibly\ndue to the availability of the second word in phonological\nmemory. We find further evidence of this effect outside of\na laboratory setting in naturalistic conversational contexts in\nCHILDES (MacWhinney, 2000), a large corpus of transcribed\nchild-adult interactions.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Decision making; cognitive development; developmental\nexperimentation; language acquisition; learning"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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        {
            "first_name": "Emily",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Sumner",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Rochester",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Erika",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "DeAngelis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Rochester",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Mara",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hyatt",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Rochester",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Noah",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Goodman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Celeste",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kidd",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Rochester",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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