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Corpora in Language Acquisition Research Bernard J. Baars Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA Thomas C. Dalton California Polytechnic Institute, San Luis Obispo, CA Trends in Language Acquisition Research As the official publication of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), TiLAR presents thematic collective volumes on state-of-the-art child language research carried out by IASCL members worldwide. IASCL website: http://iascl.talkbank.org/ Series Editors Annick De Houwer Steven Gillis University of Antwerp University of Antwerp [email protected] [email protected] Advisory Board Jean Berko Gleason Paul Fletcher Boston University University College Cork Ruth Berman Brian MacWhinney Tel Aviv University Carnegie Mellon University Philip Dale University of New Mexico Volume 6 Corpora in Language Acquisition Research. History, methods, perspectives Edited by Heike Behrens Corpora in Language Acquisition Research History, methods, perspectives Edited by Heike Behrens University of Basel John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Corpora in language acquisition research : history, methods, perspectives / edited by Heike Behrens. p. cm. (Trends in Language Acquisition Research, issn 1569-0644 ; v. 6) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Language acquisition--Research--Data processing. I. Behrens, Heike. P118.C6738 2008 401'.93--dc22 2008002769 isbn 978 90 272 3476 6 (Hb; alk. paper) © 2008 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents List of contributors vii Preface i x Corpora in language acquisition research: History, methods, perspectives x i Heike Behrens How big is big enough? Assessing the reliability of data from naturalistic samples 1 Caroline F. Rowland, Sarah L. Fletcher and Daniel Freudenthal Core morphology in child directed speech: Crosslinguistic corpus analyses of noun plurals 2 5 Dorit Ravid, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Bracha Nir-Sagiv, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Agnita Souman, Katja Rehfeldt, Sabine Laaha, Johannes Bertl, Hans Basbøll and Steven Gillis Learning the English auxiliary: A usage-based approach 6 1 Elena Lieven Using corpora to examine discourse effects in syntax 9 9 Shanley Allen, Barbora Skarabela and Mary Hughes Integration of multiple probabilistic cues in syntax acquisition 139 Padraic Monaghan and Morten H. Christiansen Enriching CHILDES for morphosyntactic analysis 165 Brian MacWhinney Exploiting corpora for language acquisition research 199 Katherine Demuth References 207 Index 230 List of contributors Shanley Allen Boston University, USA Hans Basbøll University of Southern Denmark Heike Behrens University of Basel, Switzerland Johannes Bertl Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University, USA Katherine Demuth Brown University Wolfgang U. Dressler Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Sarah L. Fletcher University of Liverpool, UK Daniel Freudenthal University of Liverpool, UK Steven Gillis University of Antwerp, Belgium Mary Hughes Boston University, USA Katharina Korecky-Kröll Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Sabine Laaha Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Corpora in Language, Acquisition Research Elena Lieven Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK Brian MacWhinney Carnegie Mellon University, USA Padraic Monaghan University of York, UK Bracha Nir-Sagiv Tel Aviv University, Israel Dorit Ravid Tel Aviv University, Israel Katja Rehfeldt University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Caroline F. Rowland University of Liverpool, UK Barbora Skarabela University of Edinburgh, UK Agnita Souman University of Antwerp, Belgium Preface The present volume is the sixth in the series ‘Trends in Language Acquisition Research’ (TiLAR). As an official publication of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), the TiLAR Series publishes two volumes per three year pe- riod in between IASCL congresses. All volumes in the IASCL-TiLAR Series are invited edited volumes by IASCL members that are strongly thematic in nature and that present cutting edge work which is likely to stimulate further research to the fullest extent. Besides quality, diversity is also an important consideration in all the volumes and in the series as a whole: diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches, diver- sity in the languages studied, diversity in the geographical and academic backgrounds of the contributors. After all, like the IASCL itself, the IASCL-TiLAR Series is there for child language researchers from all over the world. The five previous TiLAR volumes were on (1) bilingual acquisition, (2) sign lan- guage acquisition, (3) language development beyond the early childhood years, (4) the link between child language disorders and developmental theory, and (5) neurological and behavioural approaches to the study of early language processing. We are delight- ed to present the current volume on the use of corpora in language acquisition re- search. We owe a lot of gratitude to the volume editor, Heike Behrens, for her willing- ness to take on the task of preparing this sixth TiLAR volume, especially since it coincided with taking up a new position. The present volume is the last that we as General Editors will be presenting to the IASCL community. For us, the job has come full circle. This will be the last TiLAR volume we are responsible for. We find it particularly fitting, then, that this volume deals with a subject with a long history indeed, while at the same time, it is a subject that is of continued basic interest and importance in language acquisition studies: What are the types of data we need to advance our insights into the acquisition proc- ess? We are proud to have the latest thinking on this issue represented in the TiLAR series so that child language researchers from all different backgrounds worldwide have the opportunity to become acquainted with it or get to know it better. Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to once again thank all the previous TiLAR volume editors for their invaluable work. Also, our thanks go to all the con- tributors to the series. We also thank the TiLAR Advisory Board consisting of IASCL past presidents Jean Berko Gleason, Ruth Berman, Philip Dale, Paul Fletcher and Bri- an MacWhinney for being our much appreciated ‘sounding board’. Seline Benjamins and Kees Vaes of John Benjamins Publishing Company have given us their continued trust and support throughout. We appreciate this very much. Finally, we would like to
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