Is Infants' Learning of Sound Patterns Constrained by Phonological Features?
Is Infants' Learning of Sound Patterns Constrained by Phonological Features?
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DOI：
10.1080/15475440802143109
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Seidl, Amanda
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作者：
Cristia, Alejandrina;Seidl, Amanda
语言中的音系模式通常涉及语音组而不是单个语音，如果音系学对这些组共享的抽象特征进行操作，则可以解释这一点（Troubetzkoy，1939/1969; Chomsky & Halle，1968）。这种抽象特征可能存在于发展中的语法中，因为它们是人类遗传禀赋中包含的普遍语法的一部分（例如，黑尔，Kissock和Reiss，2006年），或者可能是因为婴儿从他们的语言经验中诱导特征（例如，Mielke，2004）。第一个实验测试了7个月大的婴儿对一种人工语法模式的学习，这种模式涉及一组由语音特征定义的声音，或者一组不能用单一特征描述的声音--一组“任意”的声音。婴儿能够诱导的约束，并概括为一个新的声音，只有一套共享的语音特征。第二项研究表明，婴儿无法学习任意分组并不是因为他们无法对一些相关的声音进行编码。
Phonological patterns in languages often involve groups of sounds rather than individual sounds, which may be explained if phonology operates on the abstract features shared by those groups (Troubetzkoy, 1939/1969; Chomsky & Halle, 1968). Such abstract features may be present in the developing grammar either because they are part of a Universal Grammar included in the genetic endowment of humans (e.g., Hale, Kissock and Reiss, 2006), or plausibly because infants induce features from their linguistic experience (e.g., Mielke, 2004). A first experiment tested 7-month-old infants' learning of an artificial grammar pattern involving either a set of sounds defined by a phonological feature, or a set of sounds that cannot be described with a single feature-an "arbitrary" set. Infants were able to induce the constraint and generalize it to a novel sound only for the set that shared the phonological feature. A second study showed that infants' inability to learn the arbitrary grouping was not due to their inability to encode a constraint on some of the sounds involved.