Purpose—Clinical grammar markers are needed for children with SLI older than 8 years. This study followed children studied earlier on sentences with omitted finiteness to determine if affected children continue to perform at low levels and to examine possible predictors of low performance. This is the first longitudinal report of grammaticality judgments of questions. Method—Three groups of chi...

The tree width of an alternating finite automaton (AFA) measures the parallelism in all computations AFA on a given input. maximal existential (respectively, universal) A string w number choices parallel universal branches) one computation w. We give polynomial time algorithms deciding finiteness AFA’s and width. Also we algorithm that for with decides whether or not is finite. Finiteness decid...

Children are sensitive to syntactic structure when learning new verbs (Gleitman 1990). This has been shown in tracking transitivity (Naigles 1990), as well hypothesizing meanings for attitude (Harrigan et al 2019). In English, desire and belief subcategories of have different finiteness properties; occur with finite complements non-finite complements. The current study explores adults’ sensitiv...