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| Publication date |
2009
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| Journal |
Topics in Cognitive Science
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| Volume | Issue number |
1 | 1
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| Pages (from-to) |
175-188
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Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
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| Abstract |
We develop an approach to automatically identify the most probable multiword 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 toward 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.
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| Document type |
Article
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2008.01009.x
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