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Arnon, Inbal; Snider, Neal – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
There is mounting evidence that language users are sensitive to distributional information at many grain-sizes. Much of this research has focused on the distributional properties of words, the units they consist of (morphemes, phonemes), and the syntactic structures they appear in (verb-categorization frames, syntactic constructions). In a series…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Language Processing
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Stemberger, Joseph Paul – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
Overtensing (the use of an inflected form in place of a nonfinite form, e.g. *"didn't broke" for target "didn't break") is common in early syntax. In a ChiLDES-based study of 36 children acquiring English, I examine the effects of phonological and lexical factors. For irregulars, errors are more common with verbs of low frequency and when…
Descriptors: Syntax, Rhyme, Morphemes, Error Patterns
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Taraban, Roman – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
According to "noun-cue" models, arbitrary linguistic categories, like those associated with case and gender systems, are difficult to learn unless members of the target category (i.e., nouns) are marked with phonological or semantic cues that reliably co-occur with grammatical morphemes (e.g., determiners) that exemplify the categories. "Syntactic…
Descriptors: Syntax, Nouns, Cues, Models