infinitives and indicative/asma siddiki

[Bonnie W. Johnson]

>Presumably it depends on the language and on your criterion of
>acquisition. In our current study on the acquisition of German we
>use two criteria of acquisition: 1) initial acquistion when a child uses
>an inflectional morpheme (in this case infinitive or markings for
>person) on three different lexical items. 2) we calculate the
>percentage of correct use of a particular morpheme in a linguistic
>context in which the particular marking is obligatory.

For the second criteria, what is the minimal number of obligatory contexts
required? 3? 5?

-Bonnie

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| Bonnie W. Johnson                  |
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