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Syntax Acquisition

Syntax Acquisition is a theoretical construct in the field of language development that specifies the cognitive process by which learners innately derive and internalize the grammatical rules governing sentence structure in natural language.

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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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Artificial grammar learning by 1-year-olds leads to specific and abstract knowledge

Rebecca L. Gómez, LouAnn Gerken · Cognition · 1999 · 803 citations

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  1. JM
    Julián M. Pine

    University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

    9 publications · 866 citations

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  2. EL
    Elena Lieven

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 690 citations

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  3. JL
    Jeffrey Lidz

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    7 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. MT
    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    6 publications · 1K citations

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  5. BM
    Brian MacWhinney

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    6 publications · 929 citations

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  1. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    12 h-index

    33 publications

    2.1K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    17 publications

    1.6K citations

  3. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    10 h-index

    17 publications

    1.5K citations

  4. University of Liverpool

    Liverpool, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    20 publications

    2.4K citations

  5. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    9 h-index

    14 publications

    2.1K citations

  6. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    1.4K citations

  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    9 h-index

    11 publications

    3.3K citations

  8. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    3.8K citations

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  1. Cognition

    18 publications · 3.8K citations

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  2. Language

    19 publications · 2.2K citations

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  3. Studies in Second Language Acquisition

    SSLA · 18 publications · 1.5K citations

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  4. Journal of Child Language

    16 publications · 2.2K citations

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  5. Language Learning

    15 publications · 1.4K citations

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