Early verb inflection in Lithuanian

Monotonic Paradigmatic Schemata in Italian Verb Inflection

Comparing Different Models of the Development of Verb Inflection in Early Child Spanish

How children acquire knowledge of verb inflection is a long-standing question in language acquisition research. In the present study, we test the predictions of some current constructivist and generativist accounts of the development of verb inflection by focusing on data from two Spanish-speaking children between the ages of 2;0 and 2;6. The constructivist claim that children's early knowledge...

Time reference through verb inflection in Turkish agrammatic aphasia.

This study tested the production of tensed finite verbs and participles referring to the past and future in agrammatic speakers of Turkish. The agrammatic speakers did not make more time reference errors in tensed verbs than in participles. This is interesting because tense in general cannot therefore be the main problem, since time reference for participles lacking tense inflection is as diffi...

On the relation between verb inflection and verb position in Dutch agrammatic aphasics.

This study focuses on the relation between verb position and verb inflection in the speech production of Dutch agrammatic patients. In Dutch, the finite verb is moved to second position in the matrix clause (de jongen leest een boek: the boy reads a book), but remains in its base generated, that is final, position in the embedded clause (ik zie dat de jongen een boek leest: lit. I see that the ...

A Single-mechanism Dual-route Model of German Verb Inflection

We present a constructivist neural network model of German past participle verb inflection. The model builds its architecture in response to the learning task in a way consistent with neurobiological and psychological evidence. In contrast to most single-route connectionist models with a fixed, homogeneous architecture our model (1) reaches adult performance on an extensive corpus of German ver...