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The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure: Computational modeling and grammaticality judgments from adult and child speakers of English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'
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Bannard, Colin; Tatsumi, Tomoko; Narasimhan, Bhuvana; Fukumura, Kumiko; Doherty, Laura; Bekman, Dani; Efrati, Amir; Sharma, Dipti Misra; Samanta, Soumitra; Arnon, Inbal; Maitreyee, Ramya; McCauley, Stewart; Zicherman, Shira; Berman, Ruth; Ambridge, Ben. - : Elsevier BV, 2020
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This preregistered study tested three theoretical proposals for how children form productive yet restricted linguistic generalizations, avoiding errors such as *The clown laughed the man, across three age groups (5–6 years, 9–10 years, adults) and five languages (English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'). Participants rated, on a five-point scale, correct and ungrammatical sentences describing events of causation (e.g., *Someone laughed the man; Someone made the man laugh; Someone broke the truck; ?Someone made the truck break). The verb-semantics hypothesis predicts that, for all languages, by-verb differences in acceptability ratings will be predicted by the extent to which the causing and caused event (e.g., amusing and laughing) merge conceptually into a single event (as rated by separate groups of adult participants). The entrenchment and preemption hypotheses predict, for all languages, that by-verb differences in acceptability ratings will be predicted by, respectively, the verb's relative overall frequency, and frequency in nearly-synonymous constructions (e.g., X made Y laugh for *Someone laughed the man). Analysis using mixed effects models revealed that entrenchment/preemption effects (which could not be distinguished due to collinearity) were observed for all age groups and all languages except K'iche', which suffered from a thin corpus and showed only preemption sporadically. All languages showed effects of event-merge semantics, except K'iche' which showed only effects of supplementary semantic predictors. We end by presenting a computational model which successfully simulates this pattern of results in a single discriminative-learning mechanism, achieving by-verb correlations of around r = 0.75 with human judgment data. ; Additional co-authors: Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Seth Campbell, Clifton Pye, Pedro Mateo Pedro, Sindy Fabiola Can Pixabaj, Mario Marroquín Pelíz, Margarita Julajuj Mendoza
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Keyword:
Causative; Child language acquisition; English; Entrenchment; Hebrew; Hindi; Japanese; K'iche; Preemption; Verb semantics
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104310 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/31354/1/1-s2.0-S0010027720301293-main.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1893/31354
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Predicting object mass nouns across languages
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 5, No 1 (2020): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 228–241 ; 2473-8689 (2020)
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Why is L1 not easy to hear?
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 5, No 1 (2020): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 59–73 ; 2473-8689 (2020)
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Nonverbal communication on the net: Mitigating misunderstanding through the manipulation of text and use of images in computer-mediated communication
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In: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay1557507788275899 (2019)
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Multilingual Literacy Practice in One School Community: Reading, Writing, and Being Across Japanese and English
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In: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1563811516613295 (2019)
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The Segregation of Foreigners in U.S. Mainstream Classrooms
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Acquisition of Japanese Null Arguments by Second Language Learners
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