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    "pk": 26861,
    "title": "Evidence for a facilitatory effect of multi-word units on child word learning",
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    "abstract": "Previous studies have suggested that children possess cognitiverepresentations of multi-word units (MWUs) and that MWUscan facilitate the acquisition of smaller units contained withinthem. We propose that the formation of MWU representationsprecedes and facilitates the formation of single-word represen-tations in children. Using different computational methods,we extract MWUs from two large corpora of English child-directed speech. In subsequent regression analyses, we use ageof first production of individual words as the dependent and thenumber of MWUs within which each word appears as an in-dependent variable. We find that early-learned words appearwithin many MWUs – an effect which is neither reducible tofrequency or other common co-variates, nor to the number ofcontext words contained in the MWUs. Our findings supportaccounts wherein children acquire linguistic patterns of vary-ing sizes, moving gradually from the discovery of MWUs tothe acquisition of small-grained linguistic representations.",
    "language": "eng",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "multi-word units; age of first production; wordlearning; language acquisition; computational modeling"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14b8n45n",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Robert",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Grimm",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Antwerp",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Giovanni",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Cassani",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Antwerp",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Walter",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Daelemans",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Antwerp",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Steven",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gillis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Antwerp",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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