Division of Labor in Vocabulary Structure: Insights From Corpus Analyses

@article{Christiansen2016DivisionOL,
  title={Division of Labor in Vocabulary Structure: Insights From Corpus Analyses},
  author={Morten H. Christiansen and Padraic Monaghan},
  journal={Topics in cognitive science},
  year={2016},
  volume={8 3},
  pages={
          610-24
        }
}
Psychologists have used experimental methods to study language for more than a century. However, only with the recent availability of large-scale linguistic databases has a more complete picture begun to emerge of how language is actually used, and what information is available as input to language acquisition. Analyses of such "big data" have resulted in reappraisals of key assumptions about the nature of language. As an example, we focus on corpus-based research that has shed new light on the… 
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