Elizabeth Wonnacott
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elizabeth Wonnacott is involved.
Articles
2026 The role of input variability in generalizing phrasal constructions featuring non-adjacent dependencies: A German as a foreign language primary school intervention Selected Papers from Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy 4, Piske, Thorsten and Thomas Herbst (eds.), pp. 109–146 | Article
Controlled experiments demonstrate that increased input variability in the intervener-slot of non-adjacent dependencies (NADs) improves children’s inductive generalization of the dependency (Gómez, 2002). Experiments targeting different linguistic structures show that variability benefits not… read more
2011 Bayesian modeling of sources of constraint in language acquisition Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal and Eve V. Clark (eds.), pp. 277–294 | Article
Theories of language acquisition must address the role of constraints in children's learning. Are they language-specific or domain-general? Do they come from the learner or are do they result from external factors like the nature of the data? In this chapter we describe how Bayesian modeling may be… read more