The Ling Space | How Do Kids Avoid Saying Things Incorrectly? Grammatical Conservatism @thelingspace | Uploaded 8 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
What kinds of mistakes do kids make in their sentences? Why do we see them leaving things out so much more often than putting things in wrong? In this week's episode, we talk about grammatical conservatism: what it means, some ways it shows up, and what it can tell us about language and how kids use it.
This is Topic #64!
This week's tag language: Mongolian!
Related topics:
Negative Space: Is Correcting Your Kid's Language Helpful? - youtu.be/a7Un06tDOn0
Last episode:
A Finite State of Affairs: The Chomsky Hierarchy and the Complexity of Language - youtu.be/5-uOijZ5mRo
Other of our language acquisition videos:
Flipping Switches: Parameter Resetting and Second Language Acquisition - youtu.be/2E839gb4OwQ
Kids Be Frontin': Children's Phonological Mistakes - youtu.be/EDymvzP0uac
Child Actors and Child Judges: How To Test Young Kids' Language - youtu.be/NJ5lLNBabGc
Find us on all the social media worlds:
Tumblr: http://thelingspace.tumblr.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheLingSpace
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thelingspace
And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com !
You can also find our store at the website, thelingspace.storenvy.com
Our website also has extra content about this week's topic at http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-64
(Or we will by Thursday morning.)
We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally.
If you're curious about the analysis of the Compounding Parameter and what underlies it that lets it capture both verb-particle constructions and creative compounding, take a look at section 5 of William Snyder's 2011 paper here: http://web.uconn.edu/snyder/papers/BUCLD35_Plenary.pdf
Sources:
Much of the discussion of grammatical conservatism comes from William Snyder's work, on his own and with various colleagues. We used the following sources:
- Maratsos, Michael (1998). The acquisition of grammar. In Handbook of Child Psychology, Vol. 2, 421–466.
- Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, Miguel (2008). The acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish. Probus 20:111–145.
- Snyder, William (2001). On the nature of syntactic variation: Evidence from complex predicates and complex word-formation. Language 77: 324-342.
- Snyder, William (2007). Child Language: The Parametric Approach. OUP.
- Snyder, William (2008). Children’s Grammatical Conservatism: Implications for linguistic theory. In T. Sano et al. (eds.), An Enterprise in the Cognitive Science of Language: A Festschrift for Yukio Otsu. Tokyo: Hituzi Shobu.
- Snyder, William. (2011). Children's Grammatical Conservatism: Implications for syntactic theory [Plenary Address]. In Nick Danis, Kate Mesh & Hyunsuk Sung (eds.) BUCLD 35: Proceedings of the 35th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume I, 1-20. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
- Sugisaki, Koji and Miwa Isobe (2000). Resultatives result from the compounding parameter: On the acquisitional correlation between resultatives and N-N compounds in Japanese. In Proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 493-506. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
- Sugisaki, Koji & William Snyder. (2003) Do parameters have default values? Evidence from the acquisition of English and Spanish. In Yukio Otsu (ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, 215-237. Tokyo: Hituzi Shobo.
Looking forward to next week!
What kinds of mistakes do kids make in their sentences? Why do we see them leaving things out so much more often than putting things in wrong? In this week's episode, we talk about grammatical conservatism: what it means, some ways it shows up, and what it can tell us about language and how kids use it.
This is Topic #64!
This week's tag language: Mongolian!
Related topics:
Negative Space: Is Correcting Your Kid's Language Helpful? - youtu.be/a7Un06tDOn0
Last episode:
A Finite State of Affairs: The Chomsky Hierarchy and the Complexity of Language - youtu.be/5-uOijZ5mRo
Other of our language acquisition videos:
Flipping Switches: Parameter Resetting and Second Language Acquisition - youtu.be/2E839gb4OwQ
Kids Be Frontin': Children's Phonological Mistakes - youtu.be/EDymvzP0uac
Child Actors and Child Judges: How To Test Young Kids' Language - youtu.be/NJ5lLNBabGc
Find us on all the social media worlds:
Tumblr: http://thelingspace.tumblr.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheLingSpace
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thelingspace
And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com !
You can also find our store at the website, thelingspace.storenvy.com
Our website also has extra content about this week's topic at http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-64
(Or we will by Thursday morning.)
We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally.
If you're curious about the analysis of the Compounding Parameter and what underlies it that lets it capture both verb-particle constructions and creative compounding, take a look at section 5 of William Snyder's 2011 paper here: http://web.uconn.edu/snyder/papers/BUCLD35_Plenary.pdf
Sources:
Much of the discussion of grammatical conservatism comes from William Snyder's work, on his own and with various colleagues. We used the following sources:
- Maratsos, Michael (1998). The acquisition of grammar. In Handbook of Child Psychology, Vol. 2, 421–466.
- Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, Miguel (2008). The acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish. Probus 20:111–145.
- Snyder, William (2001). On the nature of syntactic variation: Evidence from complex predicates and complex word-formation. Language 77: 324-342.
- Snyder, William (2007). Child Language: The Parametric Approach. OUP.
- Snyder, William (2008). Children’s Grammatical Conservatism: Implications for linguistic theory. In T. Sano et al. (eds.), An Enterprise in the Cognitive Science of Language: A Festschrift for Yukio Otsu. Tokyo: Hituzi Shobu.
- Snyder, William. (2011). Children's Grammatical Conservatism: Implications for syntactic theory [Plenary Address]. In Nick Danis, Kate Mesh & Hyunsuk Sung (eds.) BUCLD 35: Proceedings of the 35th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume I, 1-20. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
- Sugisaki, Koji and Miwa Isobe (2000). Resultatives result from the compounding parameter: On the acquisitional correlation between resultatives and N-N compounds in Japanese. In Proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 493-506. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
- Sugisaki, Koji & William Snyder. (2003) Do parameters have default values? Evidence from the acquisition of English and Spanish. In Yukio Otsu (ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, 215-237. Tokyo: Hituzi Shobo.
Looking forward to next week!
