Frequency effects in language acquisition [electronic resource] : defining the limits of frequency as an explanatory concept / edited by Insa Gülzow, Natalia Gagarina.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing the frequency debate in studies of language acquisition / Insa Gülzow and Natalia Gagarina -- What frequency can do and what it can't / Tom Roeper -- The role of input frequency in article acquisition in early child Swedish / Ute Bohnacker -- Testing the effects of frequency on the rate of learning / Tanja Kupisch -- The acquisition of non-agent subjects in child Hebrew / Sigal Uziel-Karl and Nancy Budwig -- The role of input frequency in early language production / Maja Savić and Darinka Andelković -- Characteristics of maternal input in relation to vocabulary development in children learning German / Christina Kauschke and Gisela Klann-Delius -- What happens when adults often use infinitives? / Natalia Gagarina -- Structural versus frequency effects in L1 acquisition of the passive and impersonal in Serbian / Milja Djurkovic -- The (non-) effect of input frequency on the acquisition of word order in Norwegian embedded clauses / Marit Westergaard and Kristine Bentzen -- Factors determining the acquisition of animacy in Czech / Denisa Bordag -- A note on acquisition in frequency-based accounts of binding phenomena / Jason Mattausch and Insa Gülzow -- Principles, parameters and probabilities / Rosalind Thornton, Stephen Crain and Graciela Tesan -- The role of frequency in language acquisition / Katherine Demuth -- Counting grammars / Charles Yang.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.