French MOR

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Colleagues,
    Work on the application of MOR to the French corpora in CHILDES  
has lagged a bit, despite the availability of a fairly complete  
lexicon provided by Christophe Parisse.  In part, this is because the  
Parisse French MOR system was constructed to use full form entries,  
rather than the system of arules and crules used for other  
languages.  It would be possible to either continue constructing  
French MOR in this full-form format or to shift to using the analytic  
framework.  Before beginning on this work, I wanted to check to see  
if anyone in the CHILDES community had done any work extending the  
current French MOR grammar.  I want to make sure we are not about to  
reinvent the wheel.  Many thanks.

--Brian MacWhinney, CMU