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From Language Behaviour to Database: Some Comments on Plunkett's Paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Roeland van Hout
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Abstract

It is evident that the Child Language Exchange System—CHILDES—will play a catalytic role in the study of first language acquisition. Plunkett rightly concludes that this system has the potential of bringing together work on first language acquisition from a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives. The compilation of the CHILDES package, including a workbench with a set of computational tools, is an admirable achievement, which most certainly will have an impact on other branches in the study of language behaviour (e.g. discourse analysis, sociolinguistics).

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , December 1990 , pp. 201 - 205
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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