Semantic roles and residual grammatical categories in mother and child speech: who tunes into whom?
Semantic roles and residual grammatical categories in mother and child speech: who tunes into whom?
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母子言语中的语义角色和残余语法类别：谁与谁协调？
DOI：
10.1017/s0305000900003445
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发表时间：
1981
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
R. Chapman
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作者：
K. S. Retherford;B. C. Schwartz;R. Chapman
摘要对两个半小时自由游戏对话中的母子言语进行了分析，包括施事、动作等15个语义角色和否定等5个附加句法范畴。孩子们在单词组合(1；7-2；0)开始时被录音，3到6个月后再次录音。母亲和孩子在使用不同语义和句法范畴的相对频率上是相似的。然而，母亲的使用是稳定的，包括比孩子更多的类别，并且在相对频率上几乎没有变化。随着时间的推移发生了变化，正是孩子们变得更像他们的母亲，无论是在语义角色上还是在他们使用的相对频率上。这些发现被解释为反对微调假说的证据，该假说解释了母亲对孩子说话的内容。讨论了语篇话题限制在限制语义角色分布中的作用。
ABSTRACT Mother and child speech in two half-hour free play conversations of six pairs were analysed for 15 semantic roles such as AGENT and ACTION, and five additional syntactic categories such as negation. Children were taped at the beginning of word combinations (1; 7–2; 0) and again 3 to 6 months later. Mothers and children were similar to one another in the relative frequency with which they used the different semantic and syntactic categories. However, the mothers' use was stable, including a larger number of categories than the children and showing few shifts in relative frequency. Insofar as changes took place over time, it was the children who changed to become more like their mothers, both in the semantic roles present and in their relative frequency of use. These findings are interpreted as evidence against a Fine-Tuning Hypothesis to explain the content of mothers' speech to children. The role of discourse topic restrictions in limiting the distribution of semantic roles is discussed.