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    "pk": 25507,
    "title": "Defaulting effects contribute to the simulation of cross-linguistic\ndifferences in Optional Infinitive errors",
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    "abstract": "This paper describes an extension to the MOSAIC model\nwhich aims to increase MOSAIC’s fit to the cross-linguistic\noccurrence of Optional Infinitive (OI) errors. While previous\nversions of MOSAIC have successfully simulated these errors\nas truncated compound finites with missing modals or\nauxiliaries, they have tended to underestimate the rate of OI\nerrors in (some) obligatory subject languages. Here, we\nexplore defaulting effects, where the most frequent form of a\ngiven verb is substituted for less frequent forms, as an\nadditional source of OI errors. It is shown that defaulting in\nEnglish tends to result in the production of bare forms that are\nindistinguishable from the infinitive, while defaulting in\nSpanish is less pronounced, and tends to result in the\nproduction of 3rd person singular forms. Dutch verb forms are\ndominated by the stem in corpus-wide statistics, and the\ninfinitive in utterance-final position, suggesting defaulting in\nDutch may change qualitatively across development.\nDefaulting is shown to increase MOSAIC’s fit to English and\nDutch without affecting its already good fit to Spanish, and\nprovides a potential way of simulating the cross-linguistic\npattern of verb-marking errors in children with SLI.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Language Acquisition; MOSAIC; Optional\nInfinitive errors; defaulting; SLI"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Freudenthal",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Julian",
            "middle_name": "M",
            "last_name": "Pine",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Gary",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Jones",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Division of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Fernand",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gobet",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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