Chapter 3
The acquisition of verb movement in Swiss German
Modeling child production errors and variability
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The core data of verb placement in Swiss German
- 2.1Adult grammar
- 2.2Child productions
- 3.Some possible analyses
- 3.1Alternative #1: Overgeneralizing V2 in embedded clauses
- 3.2Alternative #2: Extraposition in embedded clauses
- 3.3Alternative #3: Overgeneralizing VR/VPR
- 3.4Schönenberger’s analysis: Verb movement in embedded clauses
- 4.A learning model for the acquisition puzzle
- 4.1Analysis of the adult and child grammars
- 4.2Overview of the model
- 4.3Insight of the model
- 4.4Predictions for the model
- 5.Results and discussion
- 5.1Priors and update procedure
- 5.2Results
- 5.3A closer look at the acquisition data: The distribution of subjects in embedded clauses
- 6.Comparison with other learning models
- 7.The broader German perspective
- 8.The relation between input and learning
- 9.Summary
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Notes