LING 355 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Syntactic Bootstrapping, Bootstrapping (Linguistics), Carol Chomsky

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 355
• Professor: John White

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Jakobson (1968): children build up feature distinctions drawn from a universal hierarchy. Carol chomsky (1969): blindfolded doll that is easy to see or hard to see. Bloom (1970): initial negation always anaphoric in stage 1. Eimas et al. (1971): english infants discriminate between [p] and [b] Nelson (1973): first 50 words produced referential vs. expressive children. Brown (1973): acquisition of past tense (irregular, regular, overgeneralizations, correct) de villiers & de villiers (1973): comprehension of reversible sentences. Katz, n. , e. baker and j. macnamara (1974): common and proper noun acquisition (zav) Trehub (1976): english and french canadian infants discriminate between czech sounds. Clark (1982): frequent and consistent denominal (n into v) forms production. Bowerman (1982): stages in the acquisition of the simple and periphrastic causative. Werker and tees (1984): english, salish and hindi infants perceive contrasts. Otsu (1984): osv order sound unnatural in isolation and requires an object as the topic. Aitchison, j. (1985): biological basis of language acquisition.