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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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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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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 Italian). Wexler (1998) explains this pattern of results in terms of a Unique Checking Constraint that interacts with cross-linguistic differences in the underlying grammar to result in Optional Infinitive errors in obligatory subject languages (which require double-checking), but not in prodrop languages (which do not require double-checking). While Wexler’s account explains the cross-linguistic data, it attributes a great deal of innate linguistic knowledge to the child, and ignores the possibility that the cross-linguistic data may be equally well explained by the interaction between a simple distributional learning mechanism and the surface characteristics of the language. This paper presents simulations of the Optional Infinitive phenomenon across 4 languages (English, Dutch, German, and Spanish) using MOSAIC, a simple distributional analyser with no built-in syntactic knowledge. MOSAIC clearly simulates the different rates of Optional Infinitive errors across the languages, suggesting (a) that it is possible to explain the basic OI phenomenon without assuming large amounts of innate linguistic knowledge, and (b) that cross-linguistic differences in the OI phenomenon may be related to differences in the surface characteristics of the languages being learned.
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computational modelling; cross-linguistic; MOSAIC; optional infinitive errors; Wexler
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URL: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/772
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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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