Recognition of function words in 8‐month‐old French‐learning infants

Recognition of function words in 8‐month‐old French‐learning infants
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8个月大法语学习婴儿的虚词识别

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2005
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Bruno Gauthier
Bruno Gauthier
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Rushen Shi;Bruno Gauthier

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先前的研究表明,7 - 9个月大的德语学习婴儿识别功能词(Hoehle和Weissenborn,2003)。学习英语的婴儿在10.5 - 11个月左右识别功能词(Schafer等人,1998年; Shady,1996年; Shi等人,2003,2004),以及8个月时的高频率限定词“the”(Shi et al.,2004年)。本研究旨在探讨法语学习婴儿对虚词的认知。由于法语是一种音节定时语言,较完整的音节状态可能使婴儿比学习英语的婴儿更早识别功能词。在句法和形态上,功能成分在法语中比在英语中更系统地出现,为函子分割提供了可靠的统计线索。使用优先寻找程序,我们让8个月奥尔兹熟悉目标功能词(“des”、“la”、“mes "或”ta“),并用包含目标和非目标的短语对他们进行测试。结果表明,婴儿对含有该词的短语的注视时间显著低于婴儿对含有该词的短语的注视时间。
Previous work has shown that German‐learning 7‐9‐month‐old infants recognize function words (Hoehle and Weissenborn, 2003). English‐learning infants recognize function words around 10.5‐11 months (Schafer et al. 1998; Shady, 1996; Shi et al., 2003, 2004), and the highly frequent determiner ‘‘the’’ at 8 months (Shi et al., 2004). The present study investigates French‐learning infants’ recognition of function words. As French is a syllable‐timing language, the fuller syllabic status may allow infants to recognize function words earlier than English‐learning infants. Syntactically and morphologically, functional elements occur more systematically in French than in English, providing reliable statistical cues to functor segmentation. Using a preferential looking procedure, we familiarized 8‐month‐olds with a target function word (‘‘des,’’ ‘‘la,’’ ‘‘mes’’ or ‘‘ta’’), and tested them with phrases containing the target versus a non‐target. Results showed that infants’ looking time to the phrases containing the t...