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Syntactic Acquisition

Syntactic Acquisition is the developmental process through which learners internalize the structural rules governing the arrangement of constituents in sentences within a natural language, distinguishing it from other aspects of grammar acquisition by its exclusive focus on syntactic competence.

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Language Learnability and Language Development

Ellen Bialystok, Steven Pinker · Modern Language Journal · 1986 · 1.8K citations

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Rule Learning by Seven-Month-Old Infants

G. Marcus, Sujith Vijayan, Shoba Bandi Rao et al. · Science · 1999 · 1.3K citations

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Becoming syntactic.

Franklin Chang, Gary S. Dell, Kathryn Bock · Psychological Review · 2006 · 950 citations

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Children use syntax to learn verb meanings

Letitia Naigles · Journal of Child Language · 1990 · 884 citations

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<b>The syntactic phenomena of English</b> . 2nd edn. By James D. McCawley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xxiv, 809. Cloth $110, paper $50.

Andrew Rosta · Language · 2000 · 781 citations

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Authors

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  1. JL
    Jeffrey Lidz

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    9 publications · 827 citations

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  2. EL
    Elena Lieven

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    9 publications · 697 citations

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  3. MT
    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    8 publications · 749 citations

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  4. MB
    Melissa Bowerman

    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

    7 publications · 948 citations

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  5. LN
    Letitia Naigles

    University of Connecticut, United States

    7 publications · 1K citations

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Institutions

305

  1. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    11 h-index

    22 publications

    1.7K citations

  2. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    11 h-index

    19 publications

    2.2K citations

  3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    10 h-index

    17 publications

    2.7K citations

  4. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    10 h-index

    16 publications

    946 citations

  5. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    862 citations

  6. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    1.1K citations

  7. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    8 h-index

    18 publications

    2.4K citations

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Venues

  1. Studies in Second Language Acquisition

    SSLA · 19 publications · 2.2K citations

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  2. Cognition

    17 publications · 2K citations

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  3. Journal of Child Language

    20 publications · 2.6K citations

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  4. Language

    15 publications · 2.5K citations

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  5. eScholarship (California Digital Library)

    Repository · 14 publications · 368 citations

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