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dc.contributor.authorFreudenthal, D-
dc.contributor.authorPine, J M-
dc.contributor.authorGobet, F-
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dc.date.accessioned2007-05-18T11:39:46Z-
dc.date.available2007-05-18T11:39:46Z-
dc.date.issued2002-
dc.identifier.citationFreudenthal, D., Pine, J. M., & Gobet, F. (2002). Subject omission in children's language; The case for performance limitations in learning. Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 334-339). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.en
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dc.description.abstractSeveral theories have been put forward to explain the phenomenon that children who are learning to speak their native language tend to omit the subject of the sentence. According to the pro-drop hypothesis, children represent the wrong grammar. According to the performance limitations view, children represent the full grammar, but omit subjects due to performance limitations in production. This paper proposes a third explanation and presents a model which simulates the data relevant to subject omission. The model consists of a simple learning mechanism that carries out a distributional analysis of naturalistic input. It does not have any overt representation of grammatical categories, and its performance limitations reside mainly in its learning mechanism. The model clearly simulates the data at hand, without the need to assume large amounts of innate knowledge in the child, and can be considered more parsimonious on these grounds alone. Importantly, it employs a unified and objective measure of processing load, namely the length of the utterance, which interacts with frequency in the input. The standard performance limitations view assumes that processing load is dependent on a phrase’s syntactic role, but does not specify a unifying underlying principle.en
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dc.publisherCognitive Science Societyen
dc.subjectSubject omissionen
dc.subjectMOSAICen
dc.subjectpro-drop hypothesisen
dc.subjectperformance limitationen
dc.subjectlearningen
dc.subjectcomputational modellingen
dc.subjectdistributional analysisen
dc.subjectinnate knowledgeen
dc.subjectnaturalistic inputen
dc.subjectsyntaxen
dc.subjectBloomen
dc.titleSubject omission in children's language; The case for performance limitations in learning.en
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