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).
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. …
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 …
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 …