@unpublished{cogprints2086,
           month = {September},
           title = {Simple principles for a complex output: An experiment in early syntactic development},
          author = {Christophe Parisse},
            year = {2001},
        keywords = {normal child syntax development},
             url = {http://cogprints.org/2086/},
        abstract = {A set of iterative mechanisms, the Three-Step Algorithm, is proposed to account for the burst in the syntactic capacities of children over age two. These mechanisms are based on the children?s perception, memory, elementary rule-like behavior and cognitive capacities, and do not require any specific innate grammatical capacities. The relevance of the Three-Step Algorithm is tested, using the large Manchester corpus in the CHILDES database. The results show that 80\% of the utterances can be exactly reconstructed and that, when incomplete reconstructions are taken into account, 94\% of all utterances are reconstructed. The Three-Step Algorithm should be followed by the progressive acquisition of syntactic categories and use of slot-and-frame structures which lead to a greater and more complex linguistic mastery.}
}

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