A Construction Based Analysis of Child Directed Speech.

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Learnability and the Statistical Structure of Language: Poverty of Stimulus Arguments Revisited (2004, background): “But, (Cameron-Faulkner et al., 2001) analyzed a sample from this same corpus, and they report that prepositional phrases make up about 10% of all fragments, which may be indicative of their general frequency. such occurrence would produce a false prediction, and so provide negative evidence against…”
The nature of generalization in language (2009, background): “…or around a semantic prototype, even when they potentially occur with a much broader range of words or meanings (Brenier and Michaelis to appear; Cameron-Faulkner et al. 2003; Deane 2003; Diessel 2001; Goldberg 1996, 1998; Hunston and Francis 1999; Kidd et al. 2006; Schmidt and Ungerer 2002;…”
The role of frequency in the acquisition of English word order (2005, background): “Pronouns fit this bill perfectly: they are extremely common in child directed speech ( Cameron-Faulkner, Lieven, & Tomasello, 2003 ) and, since they are case marked in English, they are distributionally much more regular than full NP’s.”