( Modeling ) the steps of early syntax acquisition
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چکیده
Language acquisition proceeds incrementally. Certain properties of the target grammar are not acquired before other properties have been identified. The order of grammatical acquisition steps can be documented empirically from CHILDES files. The child starts with lexical items that can be identified in the situation. The child is able to acquire characterizing names and it is able to construct a binary topic-comment utterance. All grammatical markings (morphological, syntactic) are left out, although these items have an input that is 100-300 times the frequency of any lexical item. Grammatical markings are subsequently added to binary topic-comment utterances. I propose the following. The adult input is reduced to minimal binary (topic-comment) utterances. A grammatical marking is added to such a frame, first as an option. I have called such an elementary reduced frame that requires a grammatical addition an evidence frame. See (1) for child Dutch.
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