Development of abstract grammatical categorization in infants.
Development of abstract grammatical categorization in infants.
复制标题
婴儿抽象语法分类的发展。
作者:
Marilyn Cyr;Rushen Shi
This study examined abstract syntactic categorization in infants, using the case of grammatical gender. Ninety-six French-learning 14-, 17-, 20-, and 30-month-olds completed the study. In a preferential looking procedure infants were tested on their generalized knowledge of grammatical gender involving pseudonouns and gender-marking determiners. The pseudonouns were controlled to contain no phonological or acoustical cues to gender. The determiner gender feature was the only information available. During familiarization, some pseudonouns followed a masculine determiner and others a feminine determiner. Test trials presented the same pseudonouns with different determiners in correct (consistent with familiarization gender pairing) versus incorrect gender agreement. Twenty-month-olds showed emerging knowledge of gender categorization and agreement. This knowledge was robust in 30-month-olds. These findings demonstrate that abstract, productive grammatical representations are present early in acquisition.
DOI:
10.1044/jslhr.4104.874
发表时间:
1998
期刊:
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR
影响因子:
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作者:
Shafer,VL;Shucard,DW;Shucard,JL;Gerken,L
通讯作者:
Gerken,L
影响因子:
4
作者:
Thiessen, ED;Saffran, JR
通讯作者:
Saffran, JR