List of Abbreviations

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List of Abbreviations  
The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics
Edited by Jeffrey L. Lidz, William Snyder, and Joe Pater

Print Publication Date: Jul 2016 Subject: Linguistics Online Publication Date: Nov 2016

(p. xvii) List of Abbreviations

1sPN first-person singular pronoun

1sSM first-person singular subject marker

ACC accusative

ACD antecedent-contained deletion

ACDH A-chain Deficit Hypothesis

ACE additive genetic variance + shared environmental variance + non-

shared environmental variance

AGR subject–verb agreement

AIC Akaike’s Information Criterion

AIH Argument Intervention Hypothesis

ANS Approximate Number System

APL applicative

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ASL American Sign Language

AT Actor-Topic

ATOM Agreement Tense Omission Model

BCD Biased Constraint Demotion

CAH Canonical Alignment Hypothesis

CC consonant+consonant

CD Constraint Demotion

CFG context-free grammar

CG consonant+glide

CG Construction Grammar

CH consonant harmony

CL clitic

CL consonant+liquid

COMP comparative

CP cardinal principle

CT Circumstantial-Topic (p. xviii)

CV consonant+verb

D determiner

DS Down Syndrome

DAT dative

Deg degree

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DET determiner

DIM diminutive

DIR directional

DMCMC decayed Markov Chain Monte Carlo

DP determiner phrase

DPBE Delay of Principle B Effect

DR double-reversal

DZ dizygotic (twins)

EARH External Argument Requirement Hypothesis

EC empty category

ECM exceptional case-marking

ECP Empty Category Principle

EDCD Error-Driven Constraint Demotion

EM Expectation-Maximization

EP Elicited Production

EPP Extended Projection Principle

ER embedded-reversal

ERPs evoked response potentials

ESL Error-Selective Learning

F0 fundamental frequency

FI faire-infinitive

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FP faire-par

FRUs first of repeated uses

FUT-PRT future particle

FV final vowel (mood)

GA genetic algorithm

GA gradable adjective

GB Government-Binding

GEN genitive (p. xix)

GLA Gradual Learning Algorithm

GPSG Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar

HAS high amplitude sucking

HG Harmonic Grammar

HPP head-turn preference procedure

HPSG Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar

IDL Inconsistency Detection Learner

IF Intermediate Faith

IMPERF imperfect

IND indicative

INFL infinitival

INSTR instrumental

LF logical form

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LFCD Low Faithfulness Constraint Demotion

LFG Lexical-Functional Grammar

LOC locative

LP long passive

MCDI MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory

MGL Minimal Generalization Learner

MLG Maximum Likelihood Learning of Lexicons and Grammars

MLU mean length of utterance

MLUW mean length of utterance in words

MMN mismatch negativity

MP Minimalist Program

MPs measure phrases

MR matrix-reversal

MRCD Multi-Recursive Constraint Demotion

MRE Modal Reference Effect

MZ monozygotic (twins)

NEG negative

NEUT neuter

NOM nominative

NP noun phrase

NPI negative polarity item (p. xx)

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OCP Obligatory Contour Principle

OT Optimality Theory

P&P principles and parameters

PAC Probably Approximately Correct

PART particle

PASS passive

PAST past tense

PCFG probabilistic context-free grammar

PERF perfect tense

PERFV perfective

PERS.DET personal determiner

PF phonetic form

PIC Phase Impenetrability Condition

PL plural

PoS poverty of the stimulus

PP prepositional phrase

PPI Positive Polarity Items

PRET preterite

PRS present tense

PTPs phoneme transition pairs

PWd prosodic words

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QR Quantifier Raising

QNP quantified noun phrase

QTL quantitative trait locus

RCD Recursive Constraint Demotion

r.e. recursively enumerable

RI root infinitive

RIP Robust Interpretive Parsing

RMSEA root-mean square error of approximation

RT reaction time

R-to-O raising-to-object

SEM structural equation modeling

SG singular

SGA Stochastic Gradient Ascent/Descent (p. xxi)

SLI Specific Language Impairment

SMT Strong Minimalist Thesis

SP short passive

SS Spontaneous Speech

STL Structural Triggers Learner

SUBJ subjunctive

SVC Single Value Constraint

TCP The Compounding Parameter

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TD typically developing

TEDS Twin Early Development Study

TLA Triggering Learning Algorithm

TOP topic

TP transitional probability

TT Theme-Topic

TVJ truth value judgment

UCC Unique Checking Constraint

UG Universal Grammar

UN unmarked for case

UPR Universal Phase Requirement

UPRH Universal Phase Requirement Hypothesis

UR underlying representation

UTAH Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis (Baker 1988)

VOT voice onset time

VP verb phrse

VPE verb phrase ellipsis

WS Williams Syndrome (p. xxii)

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