Testing the effects of frequency on the rate of learning: Determiner use in early French, German and Italian

Chapters in this book

1. I-VI I
2. Introducing the frequency debate in studies of language acquisition 1
3. Opening statement
4. What frequency can do and what it can't 23
5. The acquisition of determiners
6. The role of input frequency in article acquisition in early child Swedish 51
7. Testing the effects of frequency on the rate of learning: Determiner use in early French, German and Italian 83
8. Input frequencies across development
9. The acquisition of non-agent subjects in child Hebrew: The role of input 117
10. The role of input frequency in early language production: Children’s usage of Serbian prepositions 145
11. Characteristics of maternal input in relation to vocabulary development in children learning German 181
12. What happens when adults often use infinitives? 205
13. Frequency mismatches between caregiver input and child language
14. Structural versus frequency effects in L1 acquisition of the passive and impersonal in Serbian 237
15. The (non-) effect of input frequency on the acquisition of word order in Norwegian embedded clauses 271
16. Factors determining the acquisition of animacy in Czech 307
17. (Non-)Frequentist perspectives within UG
18. A note on acquisition in frequency-based accounts of binding phenomena 331
19. Principles, parameters and probabilities 359
20. Comments
21. The role of frequency in language acquisition 383
22. Counting grammars 389
23. List of contributors 407
24. Index 411