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Knowledge Summary 22: Reaching Child Brides [PDF]
, 2012 Child marriage affects 10 million girls under the age of 18 every year. The negative health and social impact of child marriage include higher rates of maternal and infant mortality, sexually transmitted infection, social separation, and domestic abuse
Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
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A tale of two theories: response to Fisher [PDF]
, 2002 1. Introduction There are currently two theories about how children acquire a language. The first is generative grammar, according to which all human children innately possess a universal grammar, abstract enough to structure any language of the world.
Tomasello, Michael +5 more
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What exactly is Universal Grammar, and has anyone seen it? [PDF]
, 2015 Universal Grammar (UG) is a suspect concept. There is little agreement on what exactly is in it; and the empirical evidence for it is very weak.
Dabrowska, Ewa +3 more
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Bortom mitt barn och andras ungar. Omsorgsetisk grammatik för skolväljande föräldrar
Utbildning & Demokrati, 2021 A grammar of ethics of care for school choosing parents. To choose a school for one’s child is part and parcel of urban parenting in the contemporary Swedish educational system.
Hanna Sjögren
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A Developmental Grammar for Syllable Structure in the Production of Child Language [PDF]
Brain and Language, 1999 The order of acquisition of Dutch syllable types by first language learners is analyzed as following from an initial ranking and subsequent rerankings of constraints in an optimality theoretic grammar. Initially, structural constraints are all ranked above faithfulness constraints, leading to core syllable (CV) productions only.
Levelt, C.C. +2 more
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Cues and economy in the acquisition of verb movement
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2005 In this paper we will discuss how economy principles interact with cues in the input in bilingual first language acquisition. We will look at the acquisition of verb placement in a child acquiring English and Norwegian simultaneously.
Kristine Bentzen
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Depth-Bounded Statistical PCFG Induction as a Model of Human Grammar Acquisition
Computational Linguistics, 2021 This article describes a simple PCFG induction model with a fixed category domain that predicts a large majority of attested constituent boundaries, and predicts labels consistent with nearly half of attested constituent labels on a standard evaluation ...
Lifeng Jin +4 more
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Neerlandica Wratislaviensia, 2023 The strategy of raising a bilingual child, also known as family language policy (FLP), has been the subject of linguistic, psychological or sociological research for many years.
Louise van Wijgerden-Bachta
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The effect of event repetition on the production of story-grammar in children’s event narratives [PDF]
, 2011 Objective: This study examined the effect of event repetition on the amount and nature of story grammar produced by children when recalling the event.
Kim P. Roberts +8 more
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Real bad grammar: realistic grammatical description with grammaticality [PDF]
, 2007 Sampson (this issue) argues for a concept of “realistic grammatical description” in which the distinction between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences is irrelevant. In this article I also argue for a concept of “realistic grammatical description” but
Foster, Jennifer
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