@inbook{LCNL:85, author={Maryellen C. MacDonald}, year={1999}, title={Distributional information in language comprehension, production, and acquisition: Three puzzles and a moral.}, publisher={Erlbaum}, location={Mahwah, NJ}, editor={MacWhinney,Brian}, booktitle={The Emergence of Language}, pages={177-196}, abstract={Discusses 3 interrelated findings in language comprehension, production, and acquisition. In each case, the puzzling results in one field appear to have solutions in another. The intricate relationships between these puzzles hold important implications for the nature of the human language faculties and for the isolationist research strategies that currently dominate psycholinguistic research. The author argues that a sensitivity to distributional information is an important link between comprehension, production, and acquisition. The puzzles addressed include findings in syntactic ambiguity resolution, exceptions to incremental speech production, and the acquisition of distributional information. The moral mentioned in the title is: If this general account is on the right track, then the acquisition, comprehension, and production processes have links between them that cannot be safely ignored.}, language={English}, keywords={distributional information & relationships between language comprehension & production & acquisition; Comprehension; Language Development; Psycholinguistics}, isbn={0805830103}, URL={http://lcnl.wisc.edu/publications/archive/85.pdf}, }