THE PHENOMENON OF UNDERSPECIFICATION IN EARLY CHILD GRAMMAR: THE EXAMPLE OF VERB PLACEMENT AND OPTIONALITY / LE PHÉNOMÈNE DE SOUS-SPÉCIFICATION DANS LA GRAMMAIRE ENFANTINE: L'EXEMPLE DU POSITIONNEMENT DU VERBE ET DE L'OPTIONNALITÉ / FENOMENUL FORMULĂRII INEXACTE ÎN GRAMATICA TIMPURIE A COPILULUI: EXEMPLUL PLASĂRII VERBULUI ŞI OPŢIONALITATEA [PDF]
Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2013 The aim of this paper is to discuss the phenomenon of underspecification in early child grammar with respect to the syntactic consequences it has in the child language system.
Sonja Kitanovska-Kimovska
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The Lexicon and Morphosyntax of Child Spanish as Predictors of Inhibition
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 This study investigates the relationships between lexical development and inhibition, as well as morphosyntax and inhibition, in typically developing monolingual Spanish-speaking children.
John Grinstead, Nina Sorine
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Structured variation in child heritage speakers' grammars
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2022 Abstract Research on heritage language development in children can profit greatly by incorporating insights from analyses of structured variation , which is defined as the interchange of linguistic forms where the choice to use one form over the other is probabilistically ...
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Conversational Grammar- Feminine Grammar? A Sociopragmatic Corpus Study [PDF]
, 2010 One area in language and gender research that has so far received only little attention is the extent to which the sexes make use of what recent corpus research has termed “conversational grammar.” The author’s initial findings have suggested that the ...
Rühlemann, Christoph +1 more
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Grammar-based genetic programming : a survey [PDF]
, 2010 Grammar formalisms are one of the key representation structures in Computer Science. So it is not surprising that they have also become important as a method for formalizing constraints in Genetic Programming (GP).
Whigham, P. A. (Peter A.) +5 more
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Language Change and Language Acquisition
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 The aim of this paper is to present diachronic changes in terms of the conditions of first language acquisition. Grammars, seen as mental organs, may change between two generations.
Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
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An interview with Naomi L. Shin
Isogloss, 2020 Naomi L. Shin is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Her primary interests include child language acquisition, bilingualism, language contact, and sociolinguistics.
Naomi Shin
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The Comparative Fallacy: An Analysis and Discussion of Selected Research
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2004 Ever since the introduction of the “independent grammars assumption,” whereby a child is said to have its own grammar and not just an imitation of adult language, first language (L1) acquisition researchers such as Martin Braine (1963) and others have ...
Eun-Young Kwon
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Utilization of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect in First Nations Child Welfare Agencies in Ontario [PDF]
, 2009 The goals of this study are: to examine the awareness and utilization of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS) and the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (OIS) by First Nations child welfare ...
Jack, Susan +4 more
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Modelling the Development of Children’s use of Optional Infinitives in Dutch and English using MOSAIC [PDF]
, 2006 In this study we use a computational model of language learning (MOSAIC) to investigate the extent to which the Optional Infinitive (OI) phenomenon in Dutch and English can be explained in terms of a resource-limited distributional analysis of Dutch and ...
Pine, J M, Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F
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