Error and expectation in language learning: The curious absence of mouses in adult speech

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Frequency in lexical processing (2016, background): “The number of personal names in use in English has itself increased exponentially since the Victorian era (Ramscar et al., 2013), and the same pattern of increase in the use of personal pronouns in lieu of personal names has also been observed in the English language itself, as it has developed…”
The Myth of Cognitive Decline: Non-Linear Dynamics of Lifelong Learning (2014, methodology): “…in memory decline with age, learning theory predicts that experience will increasingly make people insensitive to a great deal of background context, simply because ignoring uninformative cues is an integral part of learning (Kruschke, 1996, 2001, 2005; Ramscar et al., 2013a; Rescorla, 1968).”