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Rose, Yvan – First Language, 2020
Ambridge's proposal cannot account for the most basic observations about phonological patterns in human languages. Outside of the earliest stages of phonological production by toddlers, the phonological systems of speakers/learners exhibit internal behaviours that point to the representation and processing of inter-related units ranging in size…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Patterns, Toddlers, Language Processing
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Ashkenazi, Orit; Gillis, Steven; Ravid, Dorit – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This study examined early Hebrew verb acquisition, highlighting CDS-CS relations across inflectional and derivational verb learning. It was carried out on a corpus of longitudinal dense dyadic interactions of two Hebrew-speaking toddlers aged 1;8-2;2 and their parents. Findings revealed correlated patterns within and between CDS and CS corpora in…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semitic Languages, Computational Linguistics, Grammar
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Montag, Jessica L. – First Language, 2019
Reading picture books to pre-literate children is associated with improved language outcomes, but the causal pathways of this relationship are not well understood. The present analyses focus on several syntactic differences between the text of children's picture books and typical child-directed speech, with the aim of understanding ways in which…
Descriptors: Syntax, Picture Books, Language Acquisition, Correlation
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Hou, Lynn; Morford, Jill P. – First Language, 2020
The visual-manual modality of sign languages renders them a unique test case for language acquisition and processing theories. In this commentary the authors describe evidence from signed languages, and ask whether it is consistent with Ambridge's proposal. The evidence includes recent research on collocations in American Sign Language that reveal…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Phrase Structure, American Sign Language, Syntax
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Sánchez Calderón, Silvia; Fernández Fuertes, Raquel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This work investigates the acquisition of Spanish dative alternation (DA) in the production of English-Spanish bilingual and Spanish monolingual children. We explore whether "a/para"-datives and dative clitic doubled (DCLD) structures are syntactically derived from one another or, whether they are different structures. We also examine…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
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Arciuli, Joanne – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this tutorial is to explain how learning to read can be thought of as learning statistical regularities and to demonstrate why this is relevant for theory, modeling, and practice. This tutorial also shows how triangulation of methods and cross-linguistic research can be used to gain insight. Method: The impossibility of…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Language Patterns, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition
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Jesus, Alice; Marques, Rui; Santos, Ana Lúcia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2019
This article focuses on the acquisition of mood in early complement clauses of European Portuguese (EP). Two semantic features are involved in the EP mood system--epistemicity and veridicality. An elicited production task administered to 80 children aged 4 to 9 showed that, even though children use the subjunctive in [-- epistemic] contexts, the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Portuguese, Verbs, Preschool Children
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Laws, Jacqueline – First Language, 2019
This corpus-based study provides a baseline of complex word usage patterns in the spontaneous speech of English preschool children to ascertain the characteristics of their derivative vocabulary before literacy development affects language skills. Frequencies of suffixed derivatives produced by (N = 243) children aged 2-5 and their caregivers were…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Word Frequency, Classification, Vocabulary Skills
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Kolodny, Oren; Lotem, Arnon; Edelman, Shimon – Cognitive Science, 2015
We introduce a set of biologically and computationally motivated design choices for modeling the learning of language, or of other types of sequential, hierarchically structured experience and behavior, and describe an implemented system that conforms to these choices and is capable of unsupervised learning from raw natural-language corpora. Given…
Descriptors: Grammar, Natural Language Processing, Computer Mediated Communication, Graphs
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Aslin, Richard N.; Newport, Elissa L. – Language Learning, 2014
In the past 15 years, a substantial body of evidence has confirmed that a powerful distributional learning mechanism is present in infants, children, adults and (at least to some degree) in nonhuman animals as well. The present article briefly reviews this literature and then examines some of the fundamental questions that must be addressed for…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Grammar, Language Research, Computational Linguistics
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Hills, Thomas – Journal of Child Language, 2013
Does child-directed language differ from adult-directed language in ways that might facilitate word learning? Associative structure (the probability that a word appears with its free associates), contextual diversity, word repetitions and frequency were compared longitudinally across six language corpora, with four corpora of language directed at…
Descriptors: Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Word Frequency
Choe, Jinsun – ProQuest LLC, 2012
English-speaking children exhibit difficulty in their comprehension of raising patterns, such as (1), in which the NP the boy is semantically linked to the VP in the embedded clause, but is syntactically realized as the subject of the matrix clause. (1) Raising pattern: [s "The boy" seems to the girl [s _ to be happy]]. This dissertation…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Language, Language Patterns, Syntax
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Alishahi, Afra; Stevenson, Suzanne – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Semantic roles are a critical aspect of linguistic knowledge because they indicate the relations of the participants in an event to the main predicate. Experimental studies on children and adults show that both groups use associations between general semantic roles such as Agent and Theme, and grammatical positions such as Subject and Object, even…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Verbs, Grammar
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Mintz, Toben H. – Cognition, 2003
This paper introduces the notion of frequent frames, distributional patterns based on co-occurrence patterns of words in sentences, then investigates the usefulness of this information in grammatical categorization. A frame is defined as two jointly occurring words with one word intervening. Qualitative and quantitative results from distributional…
Descriptors: Sentences, Grammar, English, Language Patterns
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Albright, Adam; Hayes, Bruce – Cognition, 2003
Are morphological patterns learned in the form of rules? Some models deny this, attributing all morphology to analogical mechanisms. The dual mechanism model (Pinker, S., & Prince, A. (1998). On language and connectionism: analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition. "Cognition," 28, 73-193) posits that speakers do…
Descriptors: Morphemes, English, Language Acquisition, Morphology (Languages)
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