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The Atoms of Meaning Child Languages Reveal| title | The Atoms of Meaning Child Languages Reveal |
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| start_date | 2024/10/24 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle E411 |
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| details | Séminaire OCRE |
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| summary | The most surprising type of non-adult utterance children produce are errors of commission: Cases where children generate more linguistic material than adult do. When children create such errors even across different languages, they make a strong case that some cognitive universals underly them. We find that in many cases commission errors occur where linguistic theory independently postulated silent elements such as traces and negation markers (Guasti et al. 2022). Within the Meaning First Approach (Sauerland & Alexiadou 2020), we propose that children undercompress universal cognitive structures. I report on recent findings from child language elicitation studies across 40 languages. |
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| responsibles | NC |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/10/10 15:26 UTC |
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