The role of pronouns in young children's acquisition of the English transitive construction
The role of pronouns in young children's acquisition of the English transitive construction
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DOI：
10.1037//0012-1649.37.6.739
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发表时间：
2001-11-01
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4
通讯作者：
Tomasello, M
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作者：
Childers, JB;Tomasello, M
本文报道了两项研究，旨在探讨2岁半英语儿童及物性话语产生的语言表征。第一项研究是一项训练研究，其中一半的儿童听到了完整的名词作为施事和受事的话语，一半的儿童听到了两个代词的话语（即，他（她），也是一个十足的大人物。在随后的测试中，只有接受过代词和名词训练的孩子才能用临时动词创造性地说出及物性话语。第二项研究报告了一组类似的发现，但在理解方面。总之，这两项研究的结果表明，讲英语的儿童建立了许多他们的早期语言结构周围的某些特定的词汇或形态的项目和模式，也许特别是围绕特定的代词配置。
Two studies investigating the linguistic representations underlying English-speaking 2 1/2-year-olds' production of transitive utterances are reported. The first study was a training study in which half the children heard utterances with full nouns as agent and patient, and half the children heard utterances with both pronouns (i.e., He's [verb]-ing it) and also full nouns. In subsequent testing, only children who had been trained with pronouns and nouns were able to produce a transitive utterance creatively with a nonce verb. The second study reported an analogous set of findings, but in comprehension. Together, the results of these 2 studies suggest that English-speaking children build many of their early linguistic constructions around certain specific lexical or morphological items and patterns, perhaps especially around particular pronoun configurations.