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    "pk": 26814,
    "title": "Harmony in a non-harmonic language: word order learning in French children",
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    "abstract": "Recent studies using artificial language learning have arguedthat the cross-linguistic frequency of harmonic word orderpatterns–in which heads are ordered consistently before or af-ter dependents across syntactic categories–reflects a cognitivebias (Culbertson, Smolensky, & Legendre, 2012; Culbertson& Newport, 2015a). These studies suggest that English speak-ing adults and children favor harmonic orders of nouns anddifferent nominal modifiers (adjectives, numerals). However,because they target English learners, whose native languageis harmonic in the nominal domain (Num-Adj-N), this pref-erence may be based on transfer rather than a universal biasfor harmony. We present new evidence from French-speakingchildren, whose native language is non-harmonic in this do-main (Num-N-Adj). Our results reveal clear effects of nativelanguage transfer, but also evidence that a harmonic pattern isfavored even in this population of learners.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "cognitive biases; artificial language learning; ty-pology; syntax; word order; French"
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    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14p705nx",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Guillaume",
            "middle_name": " ",
            "last_name": "Braquet",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The University of Edinburgh",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jennifer",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Culbertson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The University of Edinburgh",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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