MOSAIC plus : A Crosslinguistic Model of Verb-Marking Errors in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder

Freudenthal, Daniel, Gobet, Fernand ORCID: 0000-0002-9317-6886 and Pine, Julian M ORCID: 0000-0002-7077-9713 (2023) MOSAIC plus : A Crosslinguistic Model of Verb-Marking Errors in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder. LANGUAGE LEARNING.

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Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This study extended an existing crosslinguistic model of verb‐marking errors in children's early multiword speech (MOSAIC) by adding a novel mechanism that defaults to the most frequent form of the verb where this accounts for a high proportion of forms in the input. Our simulations showed that the resulting model not only provides a better explanation of the data on typically developing children but also captures the crosslinguistic pattern of verb‐marking error in children with developmental language disorder, including the tendency of English‐speaking children to show higher rates of optional‐infinitive errors and the tendency of Dutch‐, German‐, and Spanish‐speaking children to show higher rates of agreement errors. The new version of MOSAIC thus provides a unified crosslinguistic model of the pattern of verb‐marking errors in typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	optional infinitives, crosslinguistic, developmental language disorder, child language, language development, defaulting
Divisions:	Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Population Health
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	27 Feb 2023 08:39
Last Modified:	20 Aug 2023 00:49
DOI:	10.1111/lang.12580
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3168597