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Web Resources

• One site where you can create a  concept map – you can try some of them for free.
• A short tutorial on the active vs. passive voice in sentence structures. Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab 
• Some example garden-path sentences
• Yoda translator – enter a sentence with your typical word order, like “Students like pizza,” and see what the word order is for Yoda’s syntactic rules.
• Consider another artificial, invented language, Na’vi  from Avatar (Paul Frommer). Does Na’vi rely on word order or case marking to express “who did what to whom”?
• Some additional information on increasing a child’s MLU as they develop.
• A short explanation of the logic behind Chomsky’s Poverty of the Stimulus argument for innate  syntactic biases.
• Information on SLI, from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders