Bresnan, Joan: A hybrid model of auxiliary contraction: evidence in children's speech
The present study finds parallel patterns of auxiliary contraction in a corpus study of children's speech and an earlier corpus study of adults' speech (Bresnan 2021). The combination of probabilistic and near-categorical patterns is accounted for by the hybrid model of auxiliary contraction of Bresnan (2021). These findings show that children's language, like that of adults, depends on both the usage probabilities of multiword sequences and their prosodic and rhythmic patterns reflecting the syntactic context.
December 22, 2022 |
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