Michael P Maratsos
Biographic Data
| ID | 756603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael P Maratsos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael P |
| FAMILY NAME | Maratsos |
| SIGNATURE | MARATSOS M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Disorderly nature
Sabbagh & Gelman have written an unusually thorough and careful commentary, and furthermore, I agree with virtually everything they say. Most of what I want to do in this commentary (given the space) is to try to situate these issues in a broader perspective. To start with, I'll assume that my sympathy for statistical analytic processes as an important part of children's language acquisition is well-established (Maratsos & Chalkley, 1980; Maratso…
More overregularizations after all
Marcus, Pinker, Ullman, Hollander, Rosen & Xu (1992) claim that when the irregular past form of a verb is known, it is immediately known to be the correct form, such that over-regularizations only occur as speech errors, not as a genuine grammatical alternative; as a result, they argue, over-regularization rates are, when carefully inspected, very low. In the present paper: (1) it is shown that even if over-regularizations are a genuine grammatic…
A sunny view of polarization
There are a number of ways to react to the whole problem of polarization that Rispoli's review brings up. As a first reaction, like Rispoli, personally, I deplore the polarization. I find neither side likely to be right enough about everything to be entitled to require the kind of all-or-nothing allegiance each side seems to demand. My complaints about the two sides are more basic than Rispoli's rather specific criticisms of Elman et al . Unfortu…
On having complex representations of things
Applying several names to an entity (polynomy) reflects the ability to categorize entities in different ways. Two experiments demonstrate preschoolers' abilities to apply multiple labels to representational objects and to people. In Experiment 1, 3- and 4-year-olds labeled representational objects and verified labels for story characters. In both tasks children reliably produced or accepted several words per entity and accepted a high percentage …
Commentary
First Language Acquisition
Preface 1. Introduction Part I. Foundations: 2. The history of child language studies 3. Stages of language acquisition 4. Explanation and language acquisition Part II. Milestones: 5. The period of prelinguistic development 6. The period of single-word utterances 7. The period of the first word combinations 8. The period of simple sentences: phonological and semantic acquisition 9. The period of simple sentences: acquisition of grammatical morphe…
Are actions to verbs as objects are to nouns? On the differential semantic bases of form, class, category
Metaphors of Language
Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1989, Vol 34(1), 5–7. Reviews the book, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind by George Lakoff (see record 1987-97400-000). Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things is written with great spirit to inspire controversy, taking on what its author believes to be a central, but wrong, metaphor of the human mind that today guides cognitive science. Lakoff'…
Semantic restrictions on children's passives
A Social-Technological Model for the Evolution of Language [and Comments and Reply]
This paper develops a model for the evolution of language that is consistent with semanticist and pragmaticist interpretations of the forms and functions of language and the processes of language acquisition and language change. The proximate aspect of the model emphasizes the social contexts of language acquisition and language change; its adaptive aspect emphasizes the sociobiological concept of communication as social manipulation. Both aspect…
Initial verbs of yes-no questions
Initial verbs of yeso questions
Children's use of semantic analysis in the interpretation of missing subjects
Language and Maturation
This book offers a unique overview of the current literature of language development. Beginning with an outline of the maturational changes occur in linguistic knowledge in the period from birth to adulthood, it goes on to discuss the suggested causes for the changes and the controversies about the suggested causes.The theory of generative grammar advanced by Noam Chomsky was responsible for much of the excitement and interest the study of langua…
Against the transformationalist account
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A developmental study of factivity and negation in complex syntax
Two groups of preschoolers and one group of young grade-schoolers were tested for their comprehension of presuppositions and negation in complex syntax. Four types of sentences were presented to each child: affirmative and negative versions of sentences with factive main predicates, which presuppose the truth of the proposition of the complement clause, and nonfactive main predicates, which do not. A forced-choice design was used: the children ch…
Structure and Variation in Child Language
Lois Bloom, Patsy Lightbown, Lois Hood, Melissa Bowerman, Michael Maratsos, Michael P. Maratsos, Structure and Variation in Child Language, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 40, No. 2, Structure and Variation in Child Language (May, 1975), pp. 1-97
When is a high thing the big one
Children who get worse at understanding the passive
Walter Brandis and Dorothy Henderson, Social class, language and communication. Beverly Hills, California
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The effects of stress on the understanding of pronominal co-reference in children
The effects of stress on the understanding of pronominal co-reference in children
A Social-Technological Model for the Evolution of Language [and Comments and Reply]
This paper develops a model for the evolution of language that is consistent with semanticist and pragmaticist interpretations of the forms and functions of language and the processes of language acquisition and language change. The proximate aspect of the model emphasizes the social contexts of language acquisition and language change; its adaptive aspect emphasizes the sociobiological concept of communication as social manipulation. Both aspect…
Children who get worse at understanding the passive
On having complex representations of things
Applying several names to an entity (polynomy) reflects the ability to categorize entities in different ways. Two experiments demonstrate preschoolers' abilities to apply multiple labels to representational objects and to people. In Experiment 1, 3- and 4-year-olds labeled representational objects and verified labels for story characters. In both tasks children reliably produced or accepted several words per entity and accepted a high percentage …
When is a high thing the big one
Are actions to verbs as objects are to nouns? On the differential semantic bases of form, class, category
Children's use of semantic analysis in the interpretation of missing subjects
Commentary
Initial verbs of yes-no questions
Walter Brandis and Dorothy Henderson, Social class, language and communication. Beverly Hills, California
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The effects of stress on the understanding of pronominal co-reference in children
When is a high thing the big one
Children who get worse at understanding the passive
Structure and Variation in Child Language
Lois Bloom, Patsy Lightbown, Lois Hood, Melissa Bowerman, Michael Maratsos, Michael P. Maratsos, Structure and Variation in Child Language, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 40, No. 2, Structure and Variation in Child Language (May, 1975), pp. 1-97
Against the transformationalist account
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A developmental study of factivity and negation in complex syntax
Two groups of preschoolers and one group of young grade-schoolers were tested for their comprehension of presuppositions and negation in complex syntax. Four types of sentences were presented to each child: affirmative and negative versions of sentences with factive main predicates, which presuppose the truth of the proposition of the complement clause, and nonfactive main predicates, which do not. A forced-choice design was used: the children ch…
Language and Maturation
This book offers a unique overview of the current literature of language development. Beginning with an outline of the maturational changes occur in linguistic knowledge in the period from birth to adulthood, it goes on to discuss the suggested causes for the changes and the controversies about the suggested causes.The theory of generative grammar advanced by Noam Chomsky was responsible for much of the excitement and interest the study of langua…
Children's use of semantic analysis in the interpretation of missing subjects
Initial verbs of yes-no questions
Initial verbs of yeso questions
Semantic restrictions on children's passives
A Social-Technological Model for the Evolution of Language [and Comments and Reply]
This paper develops a model for the evolution of language that is consistent with semanticist and pragmaticist interpretations of the forms and functions of language and the processes of language acquisition and language change. The proximate aspect of the model emphasizes the social contexts of language acquisition and language change; its adaptive aspect emphasizes the sociobiological concept of communication as social manipulation. Both aspect…
Metaphors of Language
Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1989, Vol 34(1), 5–7. Reviews the book, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind by George Lakoff (see record 1987-97400-000). Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things is written with great spirit to inspire controversy, taking on what its author believes to be a central, but wrong, metaphor of the human mind that today guides cognitive science. Lakoff'…
Are actions to verbs as objects are to nouns? On the differential semantic bases of form, class, category
First Language Acquisition
Preface 1. Introduction Part I. Foundations: 2. The history of child language studies 3. Stages of language acquisition 4. Explanation and language acquisition Part II. Milestones: 5. The period of prelinguistic development 6. The period of single-word utterances 7. The period of the first word combinations 8. The period of simple sentences: phonological and semantic acquisition 9. The period of simple sentences: acquisition of grammatical morphe…
On having complex representations of things
Applying several names to an entity (polynomy) reflects the ability to categorize entities in different ways. Two experiments demonstrate preschoolers' abilities to apply multiple labels to representational objects and to people. In Experiment 1, 3- and 4-year-olds labeled representational objects and verified labels for story characters. In both tasks children reliably produced or accepted several words per entity and accepted a high percentage …
Commentary
A sunny view of polarization
There are a number of ways to react to the whole problem of polarization that Rispoli's review brings up. As a first reaction, like Rispoli, personally, I deplore the polarization. I find neither side likely to be right enough about everything to be entitled to require the kind of all-or-nothing allegiance each side seems to demand. My complaints about the two sides are more basic than Rispoli's rather specific criticisms of Elman et al . Unfortu…
Disorderly nature
Sabbagh & Gelman have written an unusually thorough and careful commentary, and furthermore, I agree with virtually everything they say. Most of what I want to do in this commentary (given the space) is to try to situate these issues in a broader perspective. To start with, I'll assume that my sympathy for statistical analytic processes as an important part of children's language acquisition is well-established (Maratsos & Chalkley, 1980; Maratso…
More overregularizations after all
Marcus, Pinker, Ullman, Hollander, Rosen & Xu (1992) claim that when the irregular past form of a verb is known, it is immediately known to be the correct form, such that over-regularizations only occur as speech errors, not as a genuine grammatical alternative; as a result, they argue, over-regularization rates are, when carefully inspected, very low. In the present paper: (1) it is shown that even if over-regularizations are a genuine grammatic…
Psychology (17 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Language Development and Disorders (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works)