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Conwell, Erin – Journal of Child Language, 2017
One strategy that children might use to sort words into grammatical categories such as noun and verb is distributional bootstrapping, in which local co-occurrence information is used to distinguish between categories. Words that can be used in more than one grammatical category could be problematic for this approach. Using naturalistic corpus…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Suprasegmentals, Grammar
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MacWhinney, B.; Bates, E. – Journal of Child Language, 1993
Thirteen papers in this book illustrate MacWhinney and Bates's Competition Model (CM), with a focus on cross-linguistic processing. Studies in this volume show that (1) the CM is useful in predicting certain gross cross-linguistic differences of comprehension, particularly in relation to actor assignment and (2) children's processing strategies…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
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Greenfield, Patricia M. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
This article clarifies the position taken in the Greenfield and Smith book (1976), including relation to speech act theory, and elucidates some general theoretical issues in early language development. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Braine, Martin D. S.; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1990
A study was undertaken to test the theory that canonical sentence schemas can sometimes assign argument structure to verbs. The theory has the advantage of explaining errors without postulating the acquisition of erroneous lexical entries that have to be learned, and it can be extended to other kinds of errors in the choice and placement of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Maratsos, Michael; Kuczaj, Stanley A. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
This article reviews and criticizes Fay's particular transformational descriptions as implausible. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Language Acquisition