Coding children's overgeneralization errors

Brian Macwhinney macw at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Oct 11 16:37:21 UTC 2021


Ning,

You should code as:

*CHI: and he felled [: fell] [*] on the edge . 

If you wish, you could code the error as  [* m:+ed]

— Brian MacWhinney
Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, 
Computational Linguistics, 
and Modern Languages, CMU

> On Oct 11, 2021, at 4:42 AM, Ning Hsu <ninghsu2 at umd.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear all, 
> 
> I have a question about running MOR on children's overgeneralization errors. The following is an example.    
> 
> *CHI: and he felled on the edge [*] . 
> %mor: coord|and pro:sub|he ?|felled adv|on det:art|the n|edge .
> %gra: 1|3|LINK 2|3|SUBJ 3|0|ROOT 4|3|JCT 5|6|DET 6|4|POBJ 7|3|PUNCT
> 
> It appears that because MOR treats "fell" as the past tense form of "fall", it wouldn't segment fell and -ed. I am wondering if you have any recommendations on how to code this phenomenon so it could pass MOR. Thanks!
> 
> Best,
> Ning Hsu
> 
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