Pine, Julian 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7077-9713, Freudenthal, Thiemo and Gobet, Fernand ORCID: 0000-0002-9317-6886
(2023)
Building a unified model of the Optional Infinitive Stage: Simulating the cross-linguistic pattern of verb-marking error in typically developing children and children with Developmental Language Disorder.
Journal of Child Language, 50 (6).
pp. 1336-1352.
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Abstract
Verb-marking errors are a characteristic feature of the speech of typically-developing (TD) children and are particularly prevalent in the speech of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). However, both the pattern of verb-marking error in TD children and the pattern of verb-marking deficit in DLD vary across languages and interact with the semantic and syntactic properties of the language being learned. In this paper, we review work using a computational model called MOSAIC. We show how this work allows us to understand several features of the cross-linguistic data that are otherwise difficult to explain. We also show how discrepancies between the developmental data and the quantitative predictions generated by MOSAIC can be used to identify weaknesses in our current understanding and lead to further theory development; and how the resulting model (MOSAIC+) helps us understand differences in the cross-linguistic patterning of verb-marking errors in TD children and children with DLD.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | optional infinitive stage, verb-marking errors, developmental language disorder |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Population Health |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Feb 2023 14:47 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2023 06:24 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0305000923000132 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3168530 |
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