It was just called to my attention that in the “check” I gave you initially in the CHILDES lab description, I suggested that I found 18 of the first verb, and 24 of the second verb (for Part 2). It’s actually 24 for each of them (I missed 6 initially when I wrote that up).
In the CHILDES lab, one of the early steps is to pick a verb that is used a lot (as reported by freq). The idea was to pick the most common verb, except have, go, want, and see. Although it’s maybe giving away something that I wanted to you answer, just to keep us on …
In response to a question I got about part 6 of the CHILDES lab (where you are to count up the wh-questions): What we’re counting here should be just the cases where the child utters a wh-question (not cases where the child is responding to a wh-question).
It was just called to my attention that the nina18.cha file has a typo in the date given at the top. Specifically, it claims that nina18.cha was from 1970, but it must be from 1971, given that the age attributed to Nina increases by 4 days (not -361 days) between nina17.cha (in 1971) and nina18.cha. …
I have now finished the formatting and tests on the CHILDES lab at this point, so you can at any point now go and take a look at it and try to do it. Click on the CHILDES lab item above to get there. The last part makes reference to “topic drop” accounts, which we …
The CHILDES search I was attempting to perform in class was a combo search with these parameters, from the Eng-USA/Brown/Eve/ directory: +s”time^away” +t*MOT +w2 -w2 eve19.cha You can go to the CHILDES transcript browser, select “combo” in the popup menu, copy and paste the command above into the text box, and press “Run.” Or, if …
This is coming a bit late, but in case you had been puzzling over this on homework #3, the third question refers to how people did with respect to sentence 5. Unfortunately, the autonumbering I used to set up the questions to be answered continued with the example French sentence (giving the glosses) at the …
As I’ve announced a couple of times: Lydia White is coming to BU to give a talk tomorrow (Friday). This is definitely worth going to, I hope everyone in the class can attend. Prof. Lydia White (McGill University) will be talking about some of her current research in second language acquisition, with a focus on …
As for the question on homework #2 (“Why is this interesting?”), I have posted a revision that includes the following elaboration: Why is this interesting? Here are some things you might comment on: None of those forms in the table are actually infinitives—the infinitive has a distinct form, and there were essentially zero. How might …
I’m in the process of working up an elaboration on homework #2, but just at the outset, there are two relatively incidental typos on the one I handed out. The first is in the title. “Development of knowledge…to an SVO L2” has nothing to do with this homework. As you’ll discover, this relates to homework …