Simulating optional infinitive errors in child speech through the omission of sentence-internal elements. [PDF]
, 2005 A new version of the MOSAIC model of syntax acquisition is presented. The modifications to the model aim to address two weaknesses in its earlier simulations of the Optional Infinitive phenomenon: an over-reliance on questions in the input as the source ...
Pine, J M, Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F
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Simulating the cross-linguistic development of optional infinitive errors in MOSAIC. [PDF]
, 2005 The Optional Infinitive (OI) phenomenon in children’s speech has attracted a great deal of attention due to its occurrence in a variety of languages (including English, Dutch and German), and its apparent absence in other languages (such as Spanish and ...
Pine, J M, Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F
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Modelling optional infinitive phenomena: A computational account of tense optionality in children’s speech [PDF]
, 2000 The Optional Infinitive hypothesis proposed by Wexler (1994) is a theory of children’s early grammatical development that can be used to explain a variety of phenomena in children’s early multi-word speech.
Pine, J M, Croker, S, Gobet, F
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Comparing MOSAIC and the variational learning model of the optional infinitive stage in early child language [PDF]
, 2009 This paper compares MOSAIC and the Variational Learning Model (VLM) in terms of their ability to explain the level of finiteness marking in early child Dutch, English, Spanish, German and French.
Pine, J M, Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F
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Modeling the optional infinite stage in MOSAIC: A generalization to Dutch [PDF]
, 2001 This paper presents a model of a stage in children’s language development known as the optional infinitive stage. The model was originally developed for English, where it was shown to provide a good account of several phenomena.
Pine, J M, Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F
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What Nature Does the Persian Infinitive Have and How Is It Projected? An Explanation in the Distributed Morphology Framework [PDF]
̒Ilm-i ZabānThe categorization and syntactic structure of the infinitive have been subjects of debate, with differing views considering it either as a noun or a verb.
Claris Sarkissian +2 more
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Separation of Sub-substantive Infinitive as a Phenomenon of Syntax and Punctuation
Научный диалог, 2023 An analysis of such a phenomenon of written speech as the separation of the infinitive in the sub-substantive position is proposed from the point of view of syntax and punctuation.
K. Ya. Seagal
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Linguistic variation and change: Middle English infinitive
Acta Neophilologica, 2004 In Middle English the old inflected infinitive lost its supine function and gradually replaced the uninflected infinitive in all positions, except in the complementation of moal and a limited number of other verbs.
Frančiška Trobevšek Drobnak
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Neophilologica, 2018 It is well known that the analytic form ir a + infinitive is gradually replacing the synthetic forms cantará and cantaría, whose role is becoming more and more limited to their modal value.
Witold Sobczak
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Meter based omission of function words in MOSAIC [PDF]
, 2007 MOSAIC (Model of Syntax Acquisition in Children) is augmented with a new mechanism that allows for the omission of unstressed function words based on the prosodic structure of the utterance in which they occur.
Pine, J M, Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F
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