As in the case of other non-English languages, the study of the acquisition of Turkish has mostly focused on aspects of grammatical morphology and syntax, largely neglecting the study of the effect of interactional factors on child morphosyntax. This paper reviews indications from past research that studying input and adult-child discourse can facilitate the study of the acquisition of morphosy...

PURPOSE Despite the long history of language sampling use in the study of child language development and disorders, there are no set guidelines specifying the reporting of language sampling procedures. The authors propose reporting standards for use by investigators who employ language samples in their research. METHOD The authors conducted a literature search of child-focused studies publish...

Quantification in Child Language Jeffrey Lidz University of Maryland "Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay. "Nobody" said the Messenger. "Quite right," said the King:"this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you." "I do my best," the Messenger said in a sullen tone. "I'm sure that nobody walks much fas...

The goal of this work is to introduce CHILDES-MWE, which contains English CHILDES corpora automatically annotated with Multiword Expressions (MWEs) information. The result is a resource with almost 350,000 sentences annotated with more than 70,000 distinct MWEs of various types from both longitudinal and latitudinal corpora. This resource can be used for large scale language acquisition studies...

A central question in the study of language acquisition is how children develop a grammar consisting of abstract syntactic representations and computations. Especially problematic are grammatical operations not apparent in the surface form of children’s input, like reconstruction, the mechanism by which a syntactically moved constituent is interpreted in its pre-movement position. Reconstructio...