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CAS WR 699 | Teaching College Writing
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2023
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Table 1: Characteristics of the databases Irmak Elif Number of sessions 30 27 Start age 0;9,0 0;9,10 End age 2;0,16 1;9,28 Total number of utterances 32362 32933 Child-directed utterances 15781 22425 Child-directed with morphological analysis 12276 20687 Number of verb lemma tokens 18162 22195 Number of unique verb lemmas 601 795 Verb lemmas with count > 10 124 170 Table 2: Most frequent verbs in Irmak and Elif datasets Elif Irmak Root Gloss Freq Root Gloss Freq gel come 2809 gel come 1900 bak look 2302 yap do 1848 al take 1016 bak look 1835 git go 865 ol be 1196 yap do 857 git go 742 de say 576 iste want 625 ol be 459 al take 604 ye eat 398 koy put 490 otur sit 362 ver give 444 ver give 352 ye eat 433 TOTAL 9996 10117 Table 3: Noun and verb features evaluated in Studies 1 to 3 NOUN FEATURES Feature Explanation N-NOM nominative N-ACC accusative N-DAT dative N-LOC locative N-ABL ablative N-COM comitative N-INSTR instrumental ACC+DAT accusative, dative ACC+NOM accusative, nominative DAT+NOM dative, nominative ACC+DAT+NOM accusative, dative, nominative VERB FEATURES ACC|DAT|NOM at least contains one of three cases ACC|DAT at least contains one of two cases W-COUNT number of words in the domain of the verb N-COUNT number of nouns in the domain of the verb NO-NOUN no nouns attached to the verb CAUS causative DCAUS double causative VR verb derived from noun PASS passive Running head: Morphological cues vs. number of nominals REFL reflexive RECIP reciprocal IMPER imperative/bare form of the verb. FREQ frequency of the verb PAST past IPFV imperfective -Iyor QUE question particle NEG negation AOR aorist OPT&1P optative, first person plural FUT future tense OPT&1S optative, first person singular PFV perfective -mIş ABIL abilitative Table 4: The number of nominals surrounding transitive and intransitive verbs in the Elif and Irmak datasets Elif Irmak Transitive 1.03 (.07) .73 (.07) Intransitive .79 (.08) .49 (.10) The 95% confidence interval of the mean number of nominals is shown in parentheses. Table 5: The proportions of transitive and intransitive verbs accompanied by accusative morphology in the Elif and Irmak datasets Elif Irmak Transitive .34 (.04) .27 (.04) Intransitive .02 (.007) .02 (.008) The 95% confidence interval of the mean proportions is shown in parentheses. Table 6: The proportions of unaccusative and unergative appearing with no verbal morphology in the Elif and Irmak datasets Elif Irmak Unaccusative .03 (.02) .04 (.04) Unergative .19 (.07) .53 (.12) The 95% confidence interval of the mean proportions is shown in parentheses. Table 7: The proportions of unaccusative and unergative appearing with past morphology in the Elif and Irmak datasets Elif Irmak Unaccusative .39 (.08) .41 (.12) Unergative .19 (.05) .09 (.05) The 95% confidence interval of the mean proportions is shown in parentheses.