The role of entrenchment in children's and adults' performance on grammaticality judgment tasks

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The role of frequency in the acquisition of English word order (2005, background): “This study was recently followed up by Theakston (2004) who found that adults and children of 5 and 8 years were more likely to judge over-generalized sentences (e.g.”
The nature of generalization in language (2009, background): “For example, Theakston (2004) demonstrated that children in an experimental setting were more likely to overgeneralize verbs that were used infrequently (e.g., to use giggle transitively) than verbs that are highly frequent (e.g., to use laugh transitively).”
Examining the role of lexical frequency in the acquisition and processing of sentential complements (2006, background): “In an elicited production experiment, Brooks, Tomasello, Dodson, and Lewis (1999) showed that children were less likely to provide argument structure generalization errors when they were tested on high frequency than on low frequency verbs (see also Theakston, 2004).”
Avoiding dative overgeneralisation errors: semantics, statistics or both? (2014, unknown): “The simplest statistics-based approach is the entrenchment hypothesis (e.g., Ambridge et al., 2008; Braine & Brooks, 1995; Brooks, Tomasello, Dodson, & Lewis, 1999; Theakston, 2004; Tomasello, 2003).”