Getting there faster: 18-and 24-month-old infants' use of function words to determine reference
Getting there faster: 18-and 24-month-old infants' use of function words to determine reference
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00873.x
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发表时间：
2006-03-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Lust, B
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作者：
Kedar, Y;Casasola, M;Lust, B
在一项优先寻找任务中，对18个月和24个月的婴儿进行了英语学习测试，以考察他们对句子中单个功能词的操作所引起的不合语法现象的检测能力。婴儿听到的语法句子中，限定词的前面是一个目标名词，以及三个不符合语法的条件下，要么是下降，取代无意义的功能词（el），或取代替代英语功能词（和）。18个月和24个月大的婴儿都能更快、更准确地根据语法句子定位视觉目标。研究结果表明，到18个月大的婴儿使用他们的知识的限定词在句子计算和建立参考。
Infants of 18 and 24 months acquiring English were tested in a preferential looking task on their ability to detect ungrammaticalities caused by manipulating a single function word in sentences. Infants heard grammatical sentences in which the determiner the preceded a target noun, as well as three ungrammatical conditions in which the was either dropped, replaced by a nonsense function word (el), or replaced by an alternate English function word (and). Both the 18- and 24-month-old infants oriented faster and more accurately to a visual target following grammatical sentences. The results suggest that by 18 months of age, infants use their knowledge of determiners in sentence computation and in establishing reference.