MOTHERS SPEECH TO CHILDREN AND SYNTACTIC DEVELOPMENT - SOME SIMPLE RELATIONSHIPS
MOTHERS SPEECH TO CHILDREN AND SYNTACTIC DEVELOPMENT - SOME SIMPLE RELATIONSHIPS
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DOI：
10.1017/s0305000900002464
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发表时间：
1979-01-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
BENEDICT, H
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作者：
FURROW, D;NELSON, K;BENEDICT, H
这项研究调查了儿童的语言环境与其语言习得之间的关系。七个长子及其母亲在孩子一岁时采集的语音样本； 6和2； 3 在许多语义和句法类别中进行了分析，以确定母亲的言语与随后的语言发展之间的相关性。母亲言语的几个特征（例如话语长度、代词的使用）显着预测了孩子后来的言语。显着的相关性表明母亲选择简单的结构有利于语言的发展。此外，他们还表明，母亲语代码在帮助语言发展的方面不同于成人语言。我们的研究与之前关于环境对语言发展影响的调查之间的差异可能是由于早期调查在评估环境影响时未能考虑到儿童的语言能力水平。
This study investigated the relationships between children's linguistic environments and their language acquisition. Speech samples taken from seven firstborn children and their mothers when the children were 1; 6 and 2; 3 were analysed within a number of semantic and syntactic categories to determine correlations between mothers' speech and subsequent language development. Several characteristics of mothers' speech (e.g. utterance length, use of pronouns) significantly predicted later child speech. The significant correlations suggested that mothers' choice of simple constructions facilitated language growth. Further, they showed that the motherese code differed from adult-adult speech in ways which aided language development. Differences between our study and previous investigations of environmental effects on language development probably resulted from the failure of earlier investigations to take into account children's level of language competence at the time when environmental effects were assessed.