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Experiment 1 was submitted to the University of Rochester as a portion of the author's dissertation and was supported by NIH Training Grant 5T32DC0003 to the University of Rochester and by NIH Grant DC00167 to Elissa Newport. Experiments 2–6 and the preparation of the manuscript were supported by grants to the author from NIH (HD03352 and HD37466), NSF (BCS-9983630), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School. I am grateful to Maria Boardman, Toby Calandra, Carrie Franz, Elizabeth Johnson, and Lana Nenide and the members of the UW-Madison Learning Languages Lab for their assistance in conducting these experiments, to three anonymous reviewers for helpful suggestions on a previous draft, and to Martha Alibali, Dick Aslin, Art Glenberg, Michael Kaschak, Lana Nenida, Erik Thissen, and especially Elissa Newport for helpful discussions.
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