- Author
- Year
- 2008
- host editors
-
B.C. Love
K. McRae
V.M. Sloutsky - Title
- Children's grammars grow more abstract with age - Evidence from an automatic procedure for identifying the productive units of language
- Event
- 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2008), Washington, DC, USA
- Book/source title
- Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
- Pages (from-to)
- 47-52
- Publisher
- Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society
- ISBN
- 9780976831846
- Document type
- Conference contribution
- Faculty
- Interfacultary Research
- Institute
- Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
- Abstract
-
We develop an approach to automatically identify the most probable multi-word constructions used in children's utterances, given syntactically annotated utterances from the Brown corpus of CHILDES. The found constructions cover many interesting linguistic phenomena from the language acquisition literature, and show a progression from very concrete towards abstract constructions. We show quantitatively that for all children of the Brown corpus grammatical abstraction, defined as the relative number of variable slots in the productive units of their grammar, increases globally with age.
- Link
- Link
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.298085
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