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View article: MOSAIC+: A Crosslinguistic Model of Verb‐Marking Errors in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder
MOSAIC+: A Crosslinguistic Model of Verb‐Marking Errors in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder Open
This study extended an existing crosslinguistic model of verb‐marking errors in children's early multiword speech (MOSAIC) by adding a novel mechanism that defaults to the most frequent form of the verb where this accounts for a high propo…
View article: Building a unified model of the Optional Infinitive Stage: Simulating the cross-linguistic pattern of verb-marking error in typically developing children and children with Developmental Language Disorder
Building a unified model of the Optional Infinitive Stage: Simulating the cross-linguistic pattern of verb-marking error in typically developing children and children with Developmental Language Disorder Open
Verb-marking errors are a characteristic feature of the speech of typically-developing (TD) children and are particularly prevalent in the speech of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). However, both the pattern of verb-mar…
View article: MOSAIC+: a cross-linguistic model of verb-marking in typically developing children and children with Developmental Language Disorder
MOSAIC+: a cross-linguistic model of verb-marking in typically developing children and children with Developmental Language Disorder Open
This study extends an existing cross-linguistic model of verb-marking error in children’s early multi-word speech (MOSAIC) by adding a novel mechanism that defaults to the most frequent form of the verb where this accounts for a high propo…
View article: Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming
Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming Open
We used a multi-method approach to investigate how children avoid (or retreat from) argument structure overgeneralisation errors (e.g., * You giggled me ). Experiment 1 investigated how semantic and statistical constraints (preemption and …
View article: Simulating the Acquisition of Verb Inflection in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder in English and Spanish
Simulating the Acquisition of Verb Inflection in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder in English and Spanish Open
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have significant deficits in language ability that cannot be attributed to neurological damage, hearing impairment, or intellectual disability. The symptoms displayed by children with DLD…
View article: The Subject–Object Asymmetry Revisited: Experimental and Computational Approaches to the Role of Information Structure in Children’s Argument Omissions
The Subject–Object Asymmetry Revisited: Experimental and Computational Approaches to the Role of Information Structure in Children’s Argument Omissions Open
In two studies, we investigated the relation between information structure and argument omission in German child language in order to quantify to what extent the subject-object hypothesis (i.e., subjects are omitted more often than objects…
View article: The Role of Input Size and Generativity in Simulating Language Acquisition
The Role of Input Size and Generativity in Simulating Language Acquisition Open
This paper presents an analysis of the role of input size and generativity (ability to produce novel utterances) in simulating developmental data on a phenomenon in first language acquisition. An existing model that has already simulated t…
View article: Subject Omission in Children’s Language: The Case for Performance Limitations in Learning
Subject Omission in Children’s Language: The Case for Performance Limitations in Learning Open
Several theories have been put forward to explain the phenomenon that children who are learning to speak their native language tend to omit the subject of the sentence. According to the pro-drop hypothesis, children represent the wrong gra…
View article: Is Passive Syntax Semantically Constrained? Evidence From Adult Grammaticality Judgment and Comprehension Studies
Is Passive Syntax Semantically Constrained? Evidence From Adult Grammaticality Judgment and Comprehension Studies Open
To explain the phenomenon that certain English verbs resist passivization (e.g., * £5 was cost by the book ), Pinker (1989) proposed a semantic constraint on the passive in the adult grammar: The greater the extent to which a verb denotes …
View article: Preemption versus Entrenchment: Towards a Construction-General Solution to the Problem of the Retreat from Verb Argument Structure Overgeneralization
Preemption versus Entrenchment: Towards a Construction-General Solution to the Problem of the Retreat from Verb Argument Structure Overgeneralization Open
Participants aged 5;2-6;8, 9;2-10;6 and 18;1-22;2 (72 at each age) rated verb argument structure overgeneralization errors (e.g., *Daddy giggled the baby) using a five-point scale. The study was designed to investigate the feasibility of t…
View article: Productivity of Noun Slots in Verb Frames
Productivity of Noun Slots in Verb Frames Open
Productivity is a central concept in the study of language and language acquisition. As a test case for exploring the notion of productivity, we focus on the noun slots of verb frames, such as __ want __, __ see __, and __ get __. We devel…