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SUBMITTER: Brusini P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6990081 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brusini Perrine P Dehaene-Lambertz Ghislaine G Dutat Michel M Goffinet François F Christophe Anne A
Developmental cognitive neuroscience 20160312
Syntax allows human beings to build an infinite number of sentences from a finite number of words. How this unique, productive power of human language unfolds over the course of language development is still hotly debated. When they listen to sentences comprising newly-learned words, do children generalize from their knowledge of the legal combinations of word categories or do they instead rely on strings of words stored in memory to detect syntactic errors? Using novel words taught in the lab, ...[more]