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First Language Acquisition
Holger DiesselHolger Diessel
University of Jena
http://www.holger-diessel.de/
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Developmental stages
When does language acquisition begin?
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Developmental stages
High amplitude
sucking procedure
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Developmental stages
Early speech productionEarly speech production
1. crying, coughing
2. babbling
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Developmental stages
Early speech comprehension
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Developmental stages
Early words:
� doggy, milk� doggy, milk
� that, there
� up, down
� hello, bye bye
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Developmental stages
Two word utterances:
� Mommy gone
� Doggy up
� Baby there
� More milk
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Developmental stages
Complex sentences:
� I wanna sing.� I wanna sing.
� Think Daddy is there.
� The picture I made.
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Developmental stages
> 1;0 preverbal stage
1;0 – 1;6 first words 1;0 – 1;6 first words
1;6 – 2;0 first two-word utterances
2;0 – 2;5 first complex sentences
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Topics
� Emergence of phonemic categories
� Emergence of grammatical categories and
constructions
� Emergence of linguistic productivity
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Nature and nurture
� Nativist theories: Language acquisition involves innate
linguistic knowledge.linguistic knowledge.
� Learning theories: Children acquire language by means of
general learning mechanisms.
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Nature and nurture
Jean Piaget 1996-1980Noam Chomsky 1928
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All child language researchers assume that language
acquisition has genetically prespecified capacities!
Nature and nurture
But what is the nature of these capacities? But what is the nature of these capacities?
General brain power or specific linguistic categories?
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Nature and nurture
All child language researchers assume that language acquisition
needs experience.
But can language be learned from experience alone?
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What is innate?
Nature and nurture
What is innate?
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Universal Grammar
core
periphery
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Nativist theory
� Categories and principles
� Parameters� Parameters
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If a language uses the verb before the object (e.g. English), it is very
likely that the language places words such as in and at (prepositions)
before the noun and that auxiliaries precede the main verb.
Head direction parameter
before the noun and that auxiliaries precede the main verb.
at home
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If on the other hand a language uses the verb after the noun (e.g.
Japanese), it is very likely that the language places words such as in
and at after the noun and that auxiliaries follow the main verb.
Head direction parameter
and at after the noun and that auxiliaries follow the main verb.
home at
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VO-language OV-language
V O O V
P NP NP P
Head direction parameter
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VO-language OV-language
V O O V
P NP NP P
AUX V V AUX
Head direction parameter
AUX V V AUX
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VO-language OV-language
V O O V
P NP NP P
AUX V V AUX
Head direction parameter
AUX V V AUX
SUB S S SUB
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VO-language OV-language
V O O V
P NP NP P
AUX V V AUX
Head direction parameter
AUX V V AUX
SUB S S SUB
ART N N ART
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VO-language OV-language
V O O V
P NP NP P
AUX V V AUX
Head direction parameter
AUX V V AUX
SUB S S SUB
ART N N ART
N REL REL N
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VO-language OV-language
V O O V
P NP NP P
AUX V V AUX
Head direction parameter
AUX V V AUX
SUB S S SUB
ART N N ART
N REL REL N
V COMP COMP V
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Head direction parameter
head initial head initial
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Head direction parameter
head initial head initial
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Head direction parameter
head initial head initial
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What is the evidence for linguistic innateness?What is the evidence for linguistic innateness?
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The innateness hypothesis
The uniqueness of
human language
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Specialized brain
areas (Broca’s or
The innateness hypothesis
areas (Broca’s or
Wernicke’s area)
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Particular linguistic
The innateness hypothesis
impairments (SLI
children)
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Critical period
The innateness hypothesis
Critical period
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The poverty of the stimulus
The innateness hypothesis
The poverty of the stimulus
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The innateness hypothesis
� Positive evidence
� Negative evidence� Negative evidence
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Chomsky:
There is an enormous gap between the grammatical system of
The poverty of the stimulus
There is an enormous gap between the grammatical system of
adult language and the “meager and degenerated input”
children experience.
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Arguments against the argument from the poverty of the
stimulus:
The innateness hypothesis
→ The apparent gap is largely due to → The apparent gap is largely due to
Chomsky’s view of grammar.
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Syntactic representations
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Syntactic representations
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Passive construction
X is affected by Y
SUBJ be V-ed by PP
X is affected by Y
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Arguments against the argument from the poverty of the
stimulus:
The innateness hypothesis
� The apparent gap is largely due to Chomsky’s view of grammar.� The apparent gap is largely due to Chomsky’s view of grammar.
� Nativist theory underestimates the power of inductive learning.
� Nativists overestimate the speed of language acquisition.
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Negative evidence
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(1) Sally goed home.
Negative evidence
(1) Sally goed home.
(2) Think doggy __ naughty.
(3) I falled the spoon.
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Do parents correct the linguistic mistakes of their children?
Negative evidence
Do parents correct the linguistic mistakes of their children?
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CHILD: Want other one spoon, daddy.
FATHER: You mean, you want the other spoon.
CHILD: Yes, I want the other one spoon.
FATHER: Can you say ‘the other spoon’?
CHILD: other N one N spoon.
Negative evidence
CHILD: other N one N spoon.
FATHER: Say ‘other’.
CHILD: Other.
FATHER: ‘Spoon’.
CHILD: Spoon.
FATHER: ‘Other spoon’.
CHILD: Other N spoon. [end of the game]
CHILD: Now give me the other one spoon.
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Parents often repeat their children’s utterances when they are
linguistically incorrect, implicitly correcting the error.
Indirect negative evidence
linguistically incorrect, implicitly correcting the error.
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General learning mechanismsGeneral learning mechanisms
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Imitation
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Emulation
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Exemplar learning
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Exemplar learning
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w1 w3
w2 w4
Automatization
w1 w2 w3 w4 w5 N.
Frequently used strings of
linguistic elements are
converted into chunks (i.e.
collocations, chunks)
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Analogy
Walk -> Walked
Talk -> Talked
Cook -> Cooked
Click -> ClickedClick -> Clicked
Meek -> Meeked
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Analogy
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The poverty of the stimulus
Nativist theories Learning theories
• Grammar is innate • Grammar is not innate
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The poverty of the stimulus
Nativist theories Learning theories
• Grammar is innate • Grammar is not innate
• Language-specific learning
mechanisms i.e. parameter-
setting
• General learning
mechanisms e.g. analogy
and automatization
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The poverty of the stimulus
Nativist theories Learning theories
• Grammar is innate • Grammar is not innate
• Language-specific learning
mechanisms i.e. parameter-
setting
• Grammatical development
needs very little data
• General learning
mechanisms e.g. analogy
and automatization
• Grammatical development
needs robust data
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The rise of phonological categories
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English [ba] – [da]
Hindi [ʈa] – [ta]
The rise of phonological categories
Hindi [ʈa] – [ta]
Nthlakapmx [k’i] – [q’i]
Werker and Tees (1984)
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German [ʏ] – [u]
The rise of phonological categories
German [ʏ] – [u]
Tür - Tour
Polka and Werker (1994)
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Japanese [l] – [r]
The rise of phonological categories
Japanese [l] – [r]
Tsushima et al. (1994)
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Use it or lose it!
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attractor
The rise of phonological categories
/t/ attractor
/d/
/t/
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attractor
The rise of phonological categories
/t/ attractor
/d/
/t/
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Exemplar theory/view
attractor/t/ attractor
/d/
/t/
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Continuous perception
Categorical perception
Continuous perception
Categorical perception
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[p]
Categorical perception
[b][p]
Liberman 1957
[b]
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VOT voice onset time
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VOT voice onset time
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VOT voice onset time
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VOT voice onset time
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Categorical perception
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[p]
Categorical perception
[b][p]
Liberman 1957
[b]
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Like adult speakers of English, English infants perceive the
gradual transition from [p] to [b] categorically.
Categorical perception
Eimas et al. 1971
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Categorical perception is a unique human capacity and
restricted to language.
Categorical perception
Eimas et al. 1971
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� Categorical perception also occurs in other species.
� Categorical perception is not restricted to speech.
� Categorical perception is not characteristic of all speech sounds.
Categorical perception
� Categorical perception is not characteristic of all speech sounds.
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Categorical perception
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rrrr
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The rise of grammatical
categoriescategories
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How do children acquire grammatical categories such as nouns
and verbs?
The rise of grammatical categories
Nouns tend to denote persons, animals, and things; verbs tend to Nouns tend to denote persons, animals, and things; verbs tend to
denote events and situations.
Exceptions: fight, peace, happiness – own, believe, is
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The rise of grammatical categories
Nouns and verbs occur in specific contexts. These contexts may Nouns and verbs occur in specific contexts. These contexts may
help the child to learn grammatical categories.
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How do children acquire their native language? My research focuses
on the kinds of learning abilities required to master the complexities
of language. Three broad issues characterize my work. One line of
research asks what kinds of learning emerge in infancy. A second
line of research probes the biases that shape human learning
Distributional learning
line of research probes the biases that shape human learning
abilities, and the relationship between these biases and the structure
of human languages. A third issue concerns the extent to which the
learning abilities underlying this process are specifically tailored for
language acquisition. Related research concerns infant music
perception, and the relationship between music and language
learning.
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How do children acquire their native language? My research focuses
on the kinds of learning abilities required to master the complexities
of language. Three broad issues characterize my work. One line of
research asks what kinds of learning emerge in infancy. A second
line of research probes the biases that shape human learning
Distributional learning
line of research probes the biases that shape human learning
abilities, and the relationship between these biases and the structure
of human languages. A third issue concerns the extent to which the
learning abilities underlying this process are specifically tailored for
language acquisition. Related research concerns infant music
perception, and the relationship between music and language
learning.
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How do children acquire their native language? My research focuses
on the kinds of learning abilities required to master the complexities
of language. Three broad issues characterize my work. One line of
research asks what kinds of learning emerge in infancy. A second
line of research probes the biases that shape human learning
Distributional learning
line of research probes the biases that shape human learning
abilities, and the relationship between these biases and the structure
of human languages. A third issue concerns the extent to which the
learning abilities underlying this process are specifically tailored for
language acquisition. Related research concerns infant music
perception, and the relationship between music and language
learning.
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How do children acquire their native language? My research focuses
on the kinds of learning abilities required to master the complexities
of language. Three broad issues characterize my work. One line of
research asks what kinds of learning emerge in infancy. A second
line of research probes the biases that shape human learning
Distributional learning
line of research probes the biases that shape human learning
abilities, and the relationship between these biases and the structure
of human languages. A third issue concerns the extent to which the
learning abilities underlying this process are specifically tailored for
language acquisition. Related research concerns infant music
perception, and the relationship between music and language
learning.
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(1) Milk is white.
(2) Cars are expensive
(3) We like oranges.
(4) Did Sally say that?
Distributional learning
(4) Did Sally say that?
Pinker (1984): Semantic cues are not sufficient to learn parts of speech.
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Distributional learning
Redington et al. (1998)
Corpus: CHILDES (2.5 million words)Corpus: CHILDES (2.5 million words)
1000 most frequent words in the ambient language
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Distributional learning
Distributional context: 2 words preceding + 2 words following the
target word:
x the __ of x
in the __ x x
I have __ x x
Bigram statistics
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Context w. 1
(the __ of)
Distributional learning
(the __ of)
Target w. 1
Target w. 2
Target w. 3
Target w. 4
Etc.
210
376
0
1
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Context w. 1
(the __ of)
Context w. 2
(at the __ is)
Distributional learning
(the __ of) (at the __ is)
Target w. 1
Target w. 2
Target w. 3
Target w. 4
Etc.
210
376
0
1
321
917
1
4
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Context w. 1
(the __ of)
Context w. 2
(at the __ is)
Context w. 3
(has __ him)
Distributional learning
(the __ of) (at the __ is) (has __ him)
Target w. 1
Target w. 2
Target w. 3
Target w. 4
Etc.
210
376
0
1
321
917
1
4
2
1
1078
987
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Context w. 1
(the __ of)
Context w. 2
(at the __ is)
Context w. 3
(has __ him)
Context w. 4
(He __ in)
Distributional learning
(the __ of) (at the __ is) (has __ him) (He __ in)
Target w. 1
Target w. 2
Target w. 3
Target w. 4
Etc.
210
376
0
1
321
917
1
4
2
1
1078
987
0
5
1298
1398
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Context w. 1
(the __ of)
Context w. 2
(at the __ is)
Context w. 3
(has __ him)
Context w. 4
(He __ in)
Target w. 1
Target w. 2
Target w. 3
210
376
0
321
917
1
2
1
1078
0
5
1298
Distributional learning
Target w. 3
Target w. 4
Etc.
0
1
1
4
1078
987
1298
1398
Context vectors:
Target word 1 210-321-2-0
Target word 2 376-917-1-5
Target word 3 0-1-1078-1298
Target word 4 1-4-987-1398
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Cluster analysis
Pronouns, auxiliaries (49)
Question words, pronouns-auxiliaries (53)
Verb (105)
Verb (62)Verb (62)
Verb, present PTC (50)
Determiner, possessive pronoun (29)
Conjunction, interjection, proper noun (91)
Proper noun (91)
Preposition (33)
Noun (317)
Adjective (92)
Proper noun (10)
Dendogram
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Distributional learning
The ambient language provides a wealth of information that would
allow children to acquire grammatical categories based on allow children to acquire grammatical categories based on
distributional analysis.
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Distributional learning
But are children able to detect and compute the distributional
information that is available in the ambient language? information that is available in the ambient language?
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Nonce words: tupiro
golabu
bidaku
padoti
Distributional learning
padoti
Saffran et al. 1996
Subjects: 8 months-old infants
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tupiro – bidaku – padoti – bidaku – golabu N
Distributional learning
Saffran et al. 1996
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Condition1: tupiro-bidaku-N
Condition 2: da-pi-ku-ro-tu-N
Distributional learning
Condition 2: da-pi-ku-ro-tu-N
Saffran et al. 1996
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light + auditory
stimulus
Head-turn procedure
green
light
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Distributional learning
Saffran et al. 1996
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tu-pi-ro – bi-da-ku – padoti – bidaku – golabu N
Distributional learning
transitional probabilities
100% 25%
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Condition 1: 100-100-25-100-100-25 N
Distributional learning
Condition 2: 8.3-8.3-8.3-8.3-8.3 N
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N the existence of computational abilities that extract structure so
rapidly suggests that it is premature to assert a priori how much of
the striking knowledge base of human infants is primarily a result
of experience-independent mechanisms. In particular, some
aspects of early development may turn out to be best
Distributional learning
aspects of early development may turn out to be best
characterized as resulting from innately biased statistical leaning
mechanisms rather than innate knowledge. If this is the case, then
the massive amount of experience gathered by infants during the
first postnatal year may play a far greater role in development than
has previously been recognized.
[Saffran et al. 1996]
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The rise of constructions
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More milk. 1;11
Cup get-it. 2;0
Spoon back. 2;0
Early multiple-word utterances
Spoon back. 2;0
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More car. 1;11
More that. 2;0
More cookie. 2;0
Early multiple-word utterances
More fish. 2;1
More jump. 2;1
More Peter water. 2;4
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Block get-it. 2;3
Bottle get-it. 2;3
Spoon get-it. 2;4
Towel get-it. 2;4
Early multiple-word utterances
Towel get-it. 2;4
Dog get-it. 2;4
Books get-it. 2;5
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Spoon back. 2;2
Tiger back. 2;3
Give back. 2;3
Ball back. 2;3
Early multiple-word utterances
Ball back. 2;3
Want ball back. 2;4
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Early multiple-word utterances
More car.
More that.
More cookie.
More fish.
More jump.
Spoon back.
Tiger back.
Give back.
Ball back.
Want ball back.
More __ .
__ get-it.
__ back.
More jump.
Block get-it.
Bottle get-it.
Spoon get-it.
Towel get-it.
Dog get-it.
Want ball back.
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Early multiple-word utterances
Children’s early multi-word utterances are lexically specific
constructions. constructions.
[Tomasello 2000]
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No bed. 1;11
No bread. 2;0
Item-based constructions
No eat. 2;2
No milk. 2;2
No apple juice. 2;5
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Clock on there. 2;2
Up on there. 2;2
Item-based constructions
Hot in there. 2;2
Milk in there. 2;4
Water in there 2;5
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All broke. 2;0
All buttened. 2;3
All clean. 2;4
All done. 2;4
Item-based constructions
All done. 2;4
All gone milk. 2;2
All gone shoe. 2;2
All gone juice. 2;2
All gone bear. 2;3
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Dat Daddy. 2;0
Dat’s Weezer. 2;0
Dat my chair. 2;1
Item-based constructions
Dat my chair. 2;1
Dat’s him. 2;1
Dat’s a paper too. 2;4
That’s too little for me. 2;9
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Boot off. 2;0
Light off. 2;1
Hands off. 2;1
Item-based constructions
Hands off. 2;1
Pants off. 2;1
Hat off. 2;3
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Item-specific constructions help to bridge the gap between
rote learning and grammatical development.
Item-based constructions
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First words
Item-based constructions
Item-specific
constructions
Schematic
constructions
Mommy
Doggy
Allgone
goodbye
More __ .
__ allgone.
__ back.
NP V NP PP
X moves Y somewhere
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Brooks and Tomasello 1999
Look, Jack is meeking the wagon.
2;0-3;0 year olds
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Brooks and Tomasello 1999
Look, the wagon is getting meeked.
2;0-3;0 year olds
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Brooks and Tomasello 1999
Look Jack is
meeking the
ball.
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Brooks and Tomasello 1999
Look the ball
is meekd (by
Jack).
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Passive condition
Look, the car is going to get meeked.
The car is going to get meeked by Big Bird.
Brooks and Tomasello 1999
What’s going to get meeked? (experimenter points to the car)
That’s right, the car is going to get meeked.
The car is going to get meeked by who? (eperimenter points to Big Bird)
Yes, the car is getting meeked by Big Bird. (while performing action)
Did you see what got meeked by Big Bird? (experimenter points to the car)
Exactly! The car got meeked by Big Bird.
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Active condition
Look, Big Bird is going to meek something.
Big Bird is going to meek the car.
Brooks and Tomasello 1999
Big Bird is going to meek the car.
Who’s going to meek the car? (experimenter points to Big Bird)
That’s right, Big Bird is going to meek the car.
Big Bird is going to meek what? (experimenter points to the car)
Yes, Big Bird is meeking the car. (while performing action)
Did you see who meeked the car? (experimenter points to Big Bird)
Exactly! Big Bird meeked the car.
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Brooks and Tomasello 1999
What is Jack
doing?
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Brooks and Tomasello 1999
What, happens to the wagon?
2;0-3;0 year olds
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Brooks and Tomasello 1999
Passive training
Passive
response
Active
responseresponse response
What happened to
the PATIENT?
What is the
AGENT doing?
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Brooks and Tomasello 1999
Passive training
Passive
response
Active
responseresponse response
What happened to
the PATIENT?
85 5
What is the
AGENT doing?
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Brooks and Tomasello 1999
Passive training
Passive
response
Active
responseresponse response
What happened to
the PATIENT?
85 5
What is the
AGENT doing?
45 15
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Brooks and Tomasello 1999
Passive training Active training
Passive
response
Active
response
Passive
response
Active
responseresponse response response response
What happened to
the PATIENT?
85 5
What is the
AGENT doing?
45 15
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Brooks and Tomasello 1999
Passive training Active training
Passive
response
Active
response
Passive
response
Active
responseresponse response response response
What happened to
the PATIENT?
85 5 12 88
What is the
AGENT doing?
45 15
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Brooks and Tomasello 1999
Passive training Active training
Passive
response
Active
response
Passive
response
Active
responseresponse response response response
What happened to
the PATIENT?
85 5 12 88
What is the
AGENT doing?
45 15 0 100
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Network of constructions
Agent VERB Patient
NP V NP
Patient is VERb-ed (by agent)
NP V (by NP)
Xer BEAT y Xer DRAG y Xer MEEK yx is beaten
by y
Agent VERBtrans Patient Patient is VERb-ed (by agent)
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The rise of linguistic
productivity productivity
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Adult speakers are able to produce utterances they have never
heard before.
Linguistic productivity
What underlies the productive use of language?What underlies the productive use of language?
Standard answer: Rules.
What is a linguistic rule?
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buy → buyed
hit → hitted
Overgeneralization errors
hit → hitted
bring → bringed
go → goed (wented)
foot → foots (feets)
child(ren) → childrens
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Children produce the correct inflected forms: went, kissed
Overgeneralization errors
Children overgeneralize the regular past tense form: ringed, sayed.
But only 5-30% of all irregular verbs are regularized. Great variability.But only 5-30% of all irregular verbs are regularized. Great variability.
Children eliminate overextension errors.
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Overgeneralizations
U-shaped development
correct (2,6) correct (3;5)
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Berko (1958) The wug test
This is a wug.
Now there is another one.
There are two of them.
There are two __ .
6-7 year olds
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This is a man who knows how to rick.
Berko 1958
This is a man who knows how to rick.
He is ricking. He did the same thing yesterday.
What did he do yesterday?
Yesterday he __ .
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Allomorphs:
killed
Berko 1958
[d]killed
kissed
melt
[d]
[əd]
[t]
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Verbs Allophones Addedd past tense suffix
binged
glinged
ricked
[d]
[d]
[t]
78%
77%
73%
Berko 1958
ricked [t] 73%
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Verbs Allophones Addedd past tense suffix
binged
glinged
ricked
[d]
[d]
[t]
78%
77%
73%
Berko 1958
ricked
motted
bodded
[t]
[əd]
[əd]
73%
33%
31%
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Verbs Allophones Addedd past tense suffix
binged
glinged
ricked
[d]
[d]
[t]
78%
77%
73%
Berko 1958
ricked
motted
bodded
melted
[t]
[əd]
[əd]
[əd]
73%
33%
31%
73%
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Verbs Allophones Addedd past tense suffix
binged
glinged
ricked
[d]
[d]
[t]
78%
77%
73%
Berko 1958
ricked
motted
bodded
melted
ringed
[t]
[əd]
[əd]
[əd]
[d]
73%
33%
31%
73%
16%
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� Performance is not consistent.
� Forms with [əd] cause more problems than forms with [t] and [d].
� Real English verb form (i.e. melted, ring) show a different pattern.
Berko 1958
� Real English verb form (i.e. melted, ring) show a different pattern.
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� Many children provided the
‘correct’ plural forms, but their
responses were inconsistent.
� Similar inconsistencies have
been observed in the production
of past tense forms in naturally
occurring discourse.
Berko (1958) The wug test
occurring discourse.
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What did the children learn?
Berko 1958
V + [əd] = PAST
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Bybee, Joan and Dan Slobin. 1982.
Rules and schemas in the development and use of the
English past tense.
Language 58: 265-289Language 58: 265-289
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The overgeneralization rate is determined by two factors:
(1) Frequency
Bybee and Slobin 1982
(1) Frequency
(2) Phonetic form (=similarity)
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Frequency
Infrequent verbs were more often regularized than frequent ones.
Since frequent verbs are deeply entrenched in memory, they are
less likely to change.less likely to change.
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Similarity
Irregular verbs that are phonetically similar to regular verbs are less
frequently regularized than irregular verbs that are phoneticallyfrequently regularized than irregular verbs that are phonetically
different from regular verbs.
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Bybee and Slobin 1982
Type Example
Type 1 feel-felt
Type 2 find-found
Type 3 sing-sang
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Bybee and Slobin 1982
Type Example Past through
addition of [t/d]
Type 1 feel-felt +
Type 2 find-found
Type 3 sing-sang
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Type Example Past through
addition of [t/d]
Past ends
in [t/d]
Type 1 feel-felt + +
Type 2 find-found +
Type 3 sing-sang
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Type Example Past through
addition of [t/d]
Past ends
in [t/d]
Regularization
%
Type 1 feel-felt + + 11%
Type 2 find-found + 40%
Type 3 fly-flew 77%
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Bybee and Slobin 1982
Irregular verbs that are phonetically most distant from regular verbs
are most likely to be regularized.
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Bybee and Slobin 1982
walk
walk-[t]
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Bybee and Slobin 1982
walk feel
walk-[t] fel-[t]
The pattern ‚feel-felt‘ is very similar to the pattern ‚walk-walked‘: infrequent
regularization
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Bybee and Slobin 1982
walk find
foundwalk-[t]
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walk fly
flewwalk-[t]
The pattern ‚fly-flew‘ is very different from the pattern ‚walk-walked‘:
frequent regularization
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Bybee, Joan and Carol L. Modor. 1983.
Morphological classes as natural categories.
Language 59: 251-270.Language 59: 251-270.
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/n/ spin spun
/ŋ/ cling clung
fling flung*
sling slung*
sting stung*
Bybee and Modor 1983
sting stung*
string strung*
swing swung
wring wrung
hang hung*
/ŋk/ slink slunk
/k/ stick stuck
strike struck*
/g/ dig dug*
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Subjects: adult speakers
Items: 93 nonce words
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Items: 93 nonce words
16 real verbs
Technique: Elicitation under time pressure
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sking
strin
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skinged skung
strinned strun
flink
streak
meek
strinned
flinked
streaked
meeked
flunk
struck
muck
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striŋg
strʌŋg
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� Initial consonant cluster
� Final consonant cluster
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� Final consonant cluster
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Initial consonants Responses with /ʌ/
Initial consonants + [I] stem vowel
Initial consonants Responses with /ʌ/
sCC stri 44% [= 56% regularized]
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Initial consonants Responses with /ʌ/
Initial consonants + [I] stem vowel
Initial consonants Responses with /ʌ/
sCC stri
sC sti
44% [= 56% regularized]
37% [= 63% regularized]
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Initial consonants Responses with /ʌ/
Initial consonants + [I] stem vowel
Initial consonants Responses with /ʌ/
sCC stri
sC sti
CC fli
44% [= 56% regularized]
37% [= 63% regularized]
27% [= 73% regularized]
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Initial consonants Responses with /ʌ/
Initial consonants + [I] stem vowel
Initial consonants Responses with /ʌ/
sCC stri
sC sti
CC fli
C ti
44% [= 56% regularized]
37% [= 63% regularized]
27% [= 73% regularized]
22% [= 78% regularized]
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Final consonants + [I] stem vowel
Final consonants Responses with /ʌ/Final consonants Responses with /ʌ/
ŋ, ŋk 44% [= 56% regularized]
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Final consonants + [I] stem vowel
Final consonants Responses with /ʌ/Final consonants Responses with /ʌ/
ŋ, ŋk
k, g
44% [= 56% regularized]
25% [= 75% regularized]
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Final consonants + [I] stem vowel
Final consonants Responses with /ʌ/Final consonants Responses with /ʌ/
ŋ, ŋk
k, g
n, m
44% [= 56% regularized]
25% [= 75% regularized]
21% [= 79% regularized]
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Final consonants Responses with /ʌ/
Final consonants + [I] stem vowel
Final consonants Responses with /ʌ/
ŋ, ŋk
k, g
n, m
C
44% [= 56% regularized]
25% [= 75% regularized]
21% [= 79% regularized]
4% [= 96% regularized]
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[st] [¾z= [Ï(k)][st] [fz= [Ï(k)]
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st ¾=¾=¾=¾=(ÏÏÏÏ/ââââ)
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st ô=ô=ô=ô=(ÏÏÏÏ/k)
-(]]]])ÇÇÇÇ
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sking
st ¾=¾=¾=¾=(ÏLâÏLâÏLâÏLâ)
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st ô=ô=ô=ô=(ÏÏÏÏ/k)
-(]]]])ÇÇÇÇ
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sking
flink
st ¾=¾=¾=¾=(ÏLâÏLâÏLâÏLâ)
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flink
st ô=ô=ô=ô=(ÏÏÏÏ/k)
-(]]]])ÇÇÇÇ
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sking
flink
st ¾=¾=¾=¾=(ÏLâÏLâÏLâÏLâ)
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flink
strin
st ô=ô=ô=ô=(ÏÏÏÏ/k)
-(]]]])ÇÇÇÇ
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sking
flink
st ¾=¾=¾=¾=(ÏLâÏLâÏLâÏLâ)
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flink
strin
meek
st ô=ô=ô=ô=(ÏÏÏÏ/k)
-(]]]])ÇÇÇÇ
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“Membership in morphological classes is not a matter of strict
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presence or absence of features, but rather of similarity to a
prototype, which may be defined on a number of features.”
(Bybee and Modor 1983: 263)
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Rumelhart, D.E. and J.L. McClelland. 1986. On learning the past tense
of English verbs.
Connectionism
In David E. Rumelhart and James L. McClelland (eds.), Parallel
Distributed Processing. Explanation in Micro-structures of Cognition,
Vol. II, 216-271.
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Output
Connectionism
Input
Hidden Nodes
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Connectionism
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Output
Connectionism
Input
Hidden Nodes
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Connectionists models have become a ‘metaphor’ (model) for
the human mind.
Connectionism
the human mind.
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If the human mind works like the digital computer
linguistic categories would have clear-cut boundaries, and
linguistic productivity would be based on (mathematical) rules.
Connectionism
linguistic productivity would be based on (mathematical) rules.
But if the human mind works like a connectionist network linguistic
categories would have fuzzy boundaries, and linguistic productivity
would be based on associations (or analogy).
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Connectionism
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Wordwise: CogLing
Ungerer & Schmid. 2006. Chapters 1-2Ungerer & Schmid. 2006. Chapters 1-2
Murphy. 2004. Chapters 1-3
Diessel. forthcoming
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Questions
� Children’s early multi-word utterances have a particular form that
child language researchers have characterized as ‘item-specific
constructions’ (Tomasello) or ‘pivot schemas’ (Braine). Please
explain.
� The acquisition of the English past tense takes a path that child
language researchers have characterizes as ‘U-shaped
development’. Please explain.
� One of the best-known experiments of child language research is
the so-called ‘wug test’. What does this test show?