Testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model using an elicited imitation paradigm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20366284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Ambridge (0000-0003-2389-8477, University of Liverpool), Julian M Pine (0000-0002-7077-9713, University of Liverpool) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 879-898 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000906007628 |
| PMID | 17153865 |
| OpenAlex | W1980283382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 12 |
The present study used an elicited imitation paradigm to test the prediction of Schutze & Wexler's (1996) AGREEMENT/TENSE OMISSION MODEL (ATOM) that the rate of non-nominative subjects with agreement-marked verb forms will be sufficiently low that such errors can reasonably be disregarded as noise in the data. A screening procedure identified five children who produced non-nominative subject errors (all her for she ) who were then asked to repeat 24 sentences with 3sg feminine pronoun subjects ( she ) and agreeing main verbs or auxiliaries. All five children produced at least one non-nominative subject ( her ) with an agreement-marked verb form, and for none of these five children was the non-NOM+AGR rate significantly different to the rate that would be expected by chance, given the independent frequencies of non-nominative subjects and agreement-marked verb forms in their data. The three children for whom this expected (by chance) error rate was significantly greater than 10% (representing an acceptable level of noise in the data) produced non-NOM+AGR errors at a rate significantly greater than 10%, counter to the prediction of the ATOM. These results replicate and extend the naturalistic-data findings of Pine et al . using a different method. They also provide support for the use of elicited imitation as a methodology for assessing children's early grammatical knowledge
Agreement · Cognitive psychology · Imitation · Linguistics · Nominative case · Verb · Child and Animal Learning Development · Language Development and Disorders · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2021 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |