...such as "Ep phen ~" ((My) name is ~) or "Dok rem" (Where (is) the toilet?), with the latter case exhibiting even the omission of the copula since proximity/location is already indicated by the wh-object.
#linguistics #conlanging #morphosyntax
Not every aspect type of verb inflection is tense, friends. This is clearly exonerative VOICE.
(also, that's a great concept: exonerative as an inflectional category. Hat tip!)
#linguistics #morphosyntax
#JSLHR study investigated the dimensionality of #language in #bilingual children using measures of semantics and #morphosyntax in English and in Spanish. on.asha.org/4cIMt9W
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אני: רחצת ידיים אחרי הארוחה?
בת4.5: הולכת לרחוץ ידיים, חוזרת ומכריזה: washתי!
(סיפור שראוי במיוחד לפורים, ההנהלה מתנצלת על האיחור הקל)
#הורות #דולשוני
#parenting #bilingual #English #Hebrew #codeswitching ? #morphosyntax
#LSA #LSA2025 #Linguistics #CommunicativeEfficiency #ExperimentalMethods #FirstLanguageAcquisition #L1 #L1acquisition #Production #Productivity #Semantics #ComputationalModeling #Morphosyntax #CorpusLinguistics #Learning #Lexicon
Abstract This study adjudicates between two opposing accounts of morphological productivity, using English past-tense as its test case. The single-route model (e.g., Bybee & Moder, 1983) posits that both regular and irregular past-tense forms are generated by analogy across stored exemplars in associative memory. In contrast, the dual-route model (e.g., Prasada & Pinker, 1993) posits that regular inflection requires use of a formal "add-ed" rule that does not require analogy across regular past-tense forms. Children (aged 3-4; 5-6; 6-7; 9-10) saw animations of an animal performing a novel action described with a novel verb (e.g., gezz; chake). Past-tense forms of novel verbs were elicited by prompting the child to describe what the animal "did yesterday." Collapsing across age group (since no interaction was observed), the likelihood of a verb being produced in regular past-tense form (e.g., gezzed; chaked) was positively associated with the verb's similarity to existing regular verbs, consistent with the single-route model only. Results indicate that children's acquisition of the English past-tense is best explained by a single-route analogical mechanism that does not incorporate a role for formal rules.
every day pinker and/or chomsky is wrong is a good day for me (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) #morphosyntax #ChildLanguageAcquisition #English
🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025
📧 Questions? Email: LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu
#LSA #LSA2025 #Linguistics #LanguageEvolution #Grammaticalization #Syntax #Morphosyntax #Typology
