And the object the meaning english the following kinyambo words

Assignment 2

Research paper is provided with this material separately

The key recording in the second presentation did not consist this time of the same words rearranged, but consisted of entirely new words that followed the same rule as the first set of words. Could infants distinguish new words that followed the rule from new words that did not? Strikingly, they could. The infants preferred novel second presentations over familiar second presentations. But "familiar" here meant -- not containing the same "words" -- but containing new words that followed the old rule. In their words: "Infants [can] extract abstract algebra-like rules that represent relationships between placeholders (variables), such as “the first item X is the same as the third item Y,” or more generally, that “item I is the same as item J...In addition to having the capacity to represent such rules, our results appear to show that infants have the ability to extract those rules rapidly from small amounts of input and to generalize those rules to novel instances."

What general problem of language acquisition might this result bear on? What specific rule or process discussed in class does the rule in this experiment resemble?

Part 3: Kinyambo
The following data come from Kinyambo, a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania.

[Source: Gleason's Workbook in Descriptive Linguistics, with a correction due to Norvin Richards, as well as a few

modifications.]

2 sumulat wrote 17 umabut reached

3 susulat will write 18 a abut will reach

8 sinusulat is being written 23 ina abut is being reached

9 hahanap will seek 24 umibig love!

14 bumasag broke 29 lumapit approach!

15 dumati arrived 30 tinawag was called

Question 2: List the affixes that create the various verb forms. Either give the "sound" of the affix, or

your statement. The way to do this is to show the wrong form you would get if you applied the affixes in

the wrong order (mark the form with an asterisk to indicate it is "wrong"). If the order does not matter,

past

future

future

present