Simulating the cross-linguistic pattern of Optional Infinitive errors in children's declaratives and Wh- questions
Simulating the cross-linguistic pattern of Optional Infinitive errors in children's declaratives and Wh- questions
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10.1016/j.cognition.2015.05.027
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2015-10-01
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3.4
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Gobet, Fernand
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作者：
Freudenthal, Daniel;Pine, Julian M.;Gobet, Fernand
儿童早期多词言语的最显著特征之一是，他们倾向于在需要限定动词形式的语境中产生非限定动词形式（可选不定式[OI]错误，Wexler，1994）。MOSAIC是一种语言学习的计算模型，通过从话语的右边缘学习复合有限结构来模拟几种不同语言中OI错误率的发展变化（Freudenthal，Pine，Aguado-Orea，82 Gobet，2007; Freudenthal，Pine，82 Gobet，2006 a，2009）。然而，MOSAIC目前只模拟了陈述句中的OI错误模式，并且陈述句和Wh-问句中的OI错误的跨语言模式存在重要差异。在本研究中，我们描述了一个新版本的MOSAIC，从话语的左右边缘学习。我们的模拟表明，这个新版本的模型是能够捕获的跨语言模式的OI错误的陈述在英语，荷兰语，德语和西班牙语的学习从陈述输入，和跨语言模式的OI错误的Wh-问题在英语，德语和西班牙语的疑问句输入学习。这些结果表明，MOSAIC是能够提供一个综合的帐户的跨语言模式的OI错误的陈述和Wh-问题，并提供进一步的支持，在MOSAIC实例化的观点，OI错误是复合有限的话语，缺少情态或助动词。(C)2015 Elsevier B. V.版权所有。
One of the most striking features of children's early multi-word speech is their tendency to produce non-finite verb forms in contexts in which a finite verb form is required (Optional Infinitive [OI] errors, Wexler, 1994). MOSAIC is a computational model of language learning that simulates developmental changes in the rate of OI errors across several different languages by learning compound finite constructions from the right edge of the utterance (Freudenthal, Pine, Aguado-Orea, 82 Gobet, 2007; Freudenthal, Pine, 82 Gobet, 2006a, 2009). However, MOSAIC currently only simulates the pattern of OI errors in declaratives, and there are important differences in the cross-linguistic patterning of OI errors in declaratives and Wh- questions. In the present study, we describe a new version of MOSAIC that learns from both the right and left edges of the utterance. Our simulations demonstrate that this new version of the model is able to capture the cross-linguistic patterning of OI errors in declaratives in English, Dutch, German and Spanish by learning from declarative input, and the cross-linguistic patterning of OI errors in Wh- questions in English, German and Spanish by learning from interrogative input. These results show that MOSAIC is able to provide an integrated account of the cross-linguistic patterning of OI errors in declaratives and Wh- questions, and provide further support for the view, instantiated in MOSAIC, that OI errors are compound-finite utterances with missing modals or auxiliaries. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.