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On the Utility of Conjoint and Compositional Frames and Utterance
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Simulating the referential properties of Dutch, German and English Root Infinitives in MOSAIC
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Does chess need intelligence? – A study with young chess players
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Modelling the developmental patterning of finiteness marking in English, Dutch, German and Spanish using MOSAIC
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In this paper we apply MOSAIC (Model of Syntax Acquisition in Children) to the simulation of the developmental patterning of children’s Optional Infinitive (OI) errors in four languages: English, Dutch, German and Spanish. MOSAIC, which has already simulated this phenomenon in Dutch and English, now implements a learning mechanism that better reflects the theoretical assumptions underlying it, as well as a chunking mechanism which results in frequent phrases being treated as one unit. Using one, identical model that learns from child-directed speech, we obtain a close quantitative fit to the data from all four languages, despite there being considerable cross-linguistic and developmental variation in the OI phenomenon. MOSAIC successfully simulates the difference between Spanish (a pro-drop language where OI errors are virtually absent), and Obligatory Subject languages that do display the OI phenomenon. It also highlights differences in the OI phenomenon across German and Dutch, two closely related languages whose grammar is virtually identical with respect to the relation between finiteness and verb placement. Taken together, these results suggest that (a) cross-linguistic differences in the rates at which children produce Optional Infinitives are graded, quantitative differences that closely reflect the statistical properties of the input they are exposed to and (b) theories of syntax acquisition need to consider more closely the role of input characteristics as determinants of quantitative differences in the cross-linguistic patterning of phenomena in language acquisition.
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Computational modelling; Cross-linguistic; Language acquisition; MOSAIC; Optional infinitive; Syntax
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URL: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620194/description#description http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/617
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Understanding the Developmental Dynamics of Subject Omission: The Role of Processing Limitations in Learning
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Simulating the Noun-Verb Asymmetry in the Productivity of Children’s Speech
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Linking working memory and long-term memory: A computational model of the learning of new words
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Jones, G; Gobet, F; Pine, J M. - : Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version is available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com, 2007
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Modelling the Development of Children’s use of Optional Infinitives in Dutch and English using MOSAIC
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Unifying cross-linguistic and within-language patterns of finiteness marking in MOSAIC
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On the resolution of ambiguities in the extraction of syntactic categories through chunking
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Simulating the cross-linguistic development of optional infinitive errors in MOSAIC.
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Simulating optional infinitive errors in child speech through the omission of sentence-internal elements.
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Resolving ambiguities in the extraction of syntactic categories through chunking.
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Simulating the temporal reference of Dutch and English Root Infinitives.
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Modelling syntactic development in a cross-linguistic context
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The role of input size and generativity in simulating language acquisition.
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Modelling children's negation errors using probabilistic learning in MOSAIC.
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