Cross-linguistically consistent semantic and syntactic annotation of child-directed speech

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• What: Using this approach the authors provide and for two corpora from CHILDES: Brown`s Adam corpus (English; the authors annotate ≈ 80% of its utterances) all utterances from Berman`s Hagar corpus (Hebrew). This work investigates, first, whether a syntactic framework that is now well-established in NLP-Universal Dependencies-can be applied to child-directed speech transcripts in multiple languages; and second, how language-agnostic rules can map such annotations into sentential logical forms suitable for studying the Semantic Bootstrapping Hypothesis, and the acquisition of grounded sentential semantics (e_g, Mao et_al, 2021). The annotation reveals various . . .
  

   

  

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