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    "pk": 27753,
    "title": "Do children privilege phonological cues in noun class learning?",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Previous research on acquisition of noun class systems, such as\ngrammatical gender, has shown that child learners rely dispro-\nportionately on phonological cues to class, even when compet-\ning semantic cues are more reliable. Culbertson, Gagliardi, and\nSmith (2017) use artificial language learning experiments with\nadults to argue that over-reliance on phonology may be due\nto the fact that phonological cues are available first; learners\nbase early representations on surface phonological dependen-\ncies, only later integrating semantic cues from noun meanings.\nHere, we show that child learners (6-7 year-olds) show this\nsame sensitivity to early availability. However, we also find\nintriguing evidence of developmental changes in sensitivity to\nsemantics; when both cues are simultaneously available chil-\ndren are more likely to rely on a phonology cue than adults.\nOur results suggest that early availability and a bias in favor\nof phonological cues may both contribute to children’s over-\nreliance on phonology in natural language acquisition.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Noun class"
        },
        {
            "word": "Language Acquisition"
        },
        {
            "word": "Artificial language learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "category learning"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74g7g684",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jennifer",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Culbertson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Hanna",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Jarvinen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Frances",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Haggarty",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Kenny",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Smith",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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