MacWhinney (Ed.), Mechanisms of language acquisition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. MacWhinney, B., & Bates, E. (1978). Sentential devices for conveying givenness and newness: A cross-cultural developmental study. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 17, 539558.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....explain the basic fact that children acquire their language (Chomsky, 1965; Wexler Culicover, 1980) while psychologists and psycholinguists are concerned, in detail, with how an acquisition mechanism substantiates and predicts empirically testable phenomena of child language acquisition. (MacWhinney, 1987; Pinker, 1984) My goals are much more limited than either the best algorithm or the most precise psychological model; in fact I scrupulously avoid any strong claims of algorithmic efficiency, or of neural or psychological plausibility for this initial work. I take as a central research question ....

MacWhinney, B. (1987). Mechanisms of Language Acquisition. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

....a single patient with respect to grammatical category provides evidence for the hypothesis that phonological and orthographic representation of nouns and verbs are processed by discrete neural mechanisms. Furthermore, the opposite dissociation in the verbal output modality. has also been reported. This double dissociation across patients on the same task indicates that results cannot be ascribed to greater difficulty with one type of stimulus, and provides further evidence for the view that grammatical category information is an important organizational Inducing agrammatic profiles in ....

....the view that grammatical category information is an important organizational Inducing agrammatic profiles in normals 6 Blackwell Bates principle of lexical knowledge in the brain. Hillis Caramazza, 1994, p. 2) As Shallice (1988) has pointed out, such conclusions are not always warranted. For example, drawing upon the distinction between data limited and resource limited processes (Norman Bobrow, 1975) it is possible to imagine some task A that is more vulnerable to data limitations (e.g. decrements in acoustical acuity) and some task B that is more vulnerable to ....

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....individuals who are themselves in a stage of acquiring confident use of the language. The confidence of the cue for case marking will be affected, and the cue strength will be sensitive to conflicting cues. The effect will be a drift towards early acquired features, an effect which is described in (Bichakjian, 1988) where a different explanation is given (paedomorphy caused by gene regulation) In an evolutionary scenario where language is viewed primarily as a tradition (Hattiangadi, 1987) it is relatively obvious that we could expect language to change when the transmission of the tradition is disturbed. ....

In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), Mechanisms of language acquisition. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Bichakjian, B.H. (1988). Evolution in language. Ann Arbor: Karoma.

....bodies are subsequently induced. The approach taken by Chillin interleaves the bottom up and top down mechanisms, handling a larger class of concepts. A number of recent investigations have considered the noisy oracle problem in the induction of recursive definitions (Cohen, 1993; Lapointe Matwin, 1992; Muggleton, 1992) However, the proposed mechanisms either severely limit the class of learnable programs (e.g. to single clause, linearly recursive) or rely on computationally expensive matching of sub terms, or both. None has yet been implemented and tested in a system for large scale induction ....

In MacWhinney, B. (Ed.), Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, pp. 115--155. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc/, Hillsdale, NJ. Lapointe, S., & Matwin, S. (1992). Sub-unification: A tool for efficient induction of recursive programs. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 273--281 Aberdeen, Scotland.

....GRAMMATICAL ASPECT VIA LEXICAL ASPECT: THE CONTINUITY HYPOTHESIS MARI BROMAN OLSEN, AMY WEINBERG, JEFFREY P. LILLY AND JOHN E. DRURY Previous research in child language acquisition identifies discrepancies between child and adult use of verbal inflectional morphology (Antinucci and Miller, 1976; Behrend, 1990; Behrend, Harris, and Cartwright, 1995; Bloom, Lifter, and Hafitz, 1980; Brown, 1973; van Hout, 1996) In this paper, we consider a case of partial undergeneralization where children s use of the ed and ing endings seems constrained by the aspectual class of the host verb. ....

....in the adult grammar of this language. Behrend et al. 1995) summarize the literature as showing that children first regularly apply imperfective inflections to verbs that label durative events with clear actions and past inflections to verbs that label completive events with clear results (Antinucci and Miller (1976), Bloom et al. (1980) Researchers differ in characterizing these early stages relative to the final state, as seen below. Roughly, early stages are described during which the ed ending is not normally found on verbs that denote unbounded events, such as hug, paint, or walk despite the fact ....

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In B. Macwhinney, editor, Mechanisms of language acquisition. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. Comrie, Bernard. 1976. Aspect. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA.

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