Toddlers Default to Canonical Surface-to-Meaning Mapping When Learning Verbs
Toddlers Default to Canonical Surface-to-Meaning Mapping When Learning Verbs
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DOI：
10.1111/cdev.12164
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发表时间：
2014-05-01
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4.6
通讯作者：
Christophe, Anne
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作者：
Dautriche, Isabelle;Cristia, Alejandrina;Christophe, Anne
先前的研究表明，幼儿很容易将句子中的每个名词编码为动词的一个不同的论点。但是，语言允许形式和含义之间的多种映射，这些映射不适合这种规范格式。两个实验研究了法国28个月大的婴儿对右错位句子（名词-动词，名词）的解释，在这些句子中，清晰的、语言特定的线索应该会阻止这种规范的映射。幼儿（N = 96）将包含在这些句子中的新动词解释为及物动词，忽略了韵律线索的错位（实验1），但正确地解释了包含已知动词的右错位句子（实验2）。这些结果表明，幼儿在理想条件下可以整合多个线索，但在语义贫乏的条件下，幼儿在提取新动词的结构信息时默认采用规范的表-意映射。
Previous work has shown that toddlers readily encode each noun in the sentence as a distinct argument of the verb. However, languages allow multiple mappings between form and meaning that do not fit this canonical format. Two experiments examined French 28-month-olds' interpretation of right-dislocated sentences (nouni-verb, nouni) where the presence of clear, language-specific cues should block such a canonical mapping. Toddlers (N = 96) interpreted novel verbs embedded in these sentences as transitive, disregarding prosodic cues to dislocation (Experiment 1) but correctly interpreted right-dislocated sentences containing well-known verbs (Experiment 2). These results suggest that toddlers can integrate multiple cues in ideal conditions, but default to canonical surface-to-meaning mapping when extracting structural information about novel verbs in semantically impoverished conditions.