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A fundamental task in sentence compre- hension is to assign semantic roles to sen- tence constituents. The structure-mapping account proposes that children start with a shallow structural analysis of sentences: …...

We investigate implicit corrections in the form of contrastive discourse in child- adult interaction, which have been argued to contribute to language learning. In con- trast to previous work in …...

AbstractLearning syntactic categories is a fundamental task in language acquisition. Previous studies show that co-occurrence patterns of preceding and following words are essential to group words into categories. However, the …...

AbstractThere has been recent interest in applying cognitively- or empirically-motivated bounds on recursion depth to limit the search space of grammar induction models (Ponvert et al., 2011; Noji and Johnson, …...

AbstractSpeech directed to children differs from adult-directed speech in linguistic aspects such as repetition, word choice, and sentence length, as well as in aspects of the speech signal itself, such …...

AbstractThis article describes a simple PCFG induction model with a fixed category domain that predicts a large majority of attested constituent boundaries, and predicts labels consistent with nearly half of …...

AbstractSecond language acquisition (SLA) research has extensively studied cross-linguistic transfer, the influence of linguistic structure of a speaker’s native language [L1] on the successful acquisition of a foreign language [L2]. …...