Ha! I didn't think to check Language Log, and that post does look very familair. I must have attributed it to LW based on the subject matter.
Upvoted for some sound detective work, I think I have enough information to go reference chasing now :)
Oh and in case anyone was wondering: I was looking for this experiment because I'm currently writing about the difference between child langage acquisition and adult second language acquisition, and some experiments I came across showed that exact same pattern - that the children will quickly over- or undergeneralise based on the data, while the adults engage in probability matching.
I'm currently writing about the difference between child langage acquisition and adult second language acquisition
This is a topic I'm really interested in. What arae you writing about it?
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