Multiword units lead to errors of commission in children's spontaneous production: "What corpus data can tell us?*".
Multiword units lead to errors of commission in children's spontaneous production: "What corpus data can tell us?*".
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DOI：
10.1111/desc.13125
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发表时间：
2021-11
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Ambridge B
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作者：
McCauley SM;Bannard C;Theakston A;Davis M;Cameron-Faulkner T;Ambridge B
过去十年的心理语言学研究表明，儿童的语言知识包括对经常遇到的多词序列的专门表征。这一点的重要证据来自对儿童产生的研究：人们一再证明，儿童对不常见的单词序列的言语错误率要高于对那些频繁的单词序列的言语错误率。在这项研究中，我们调查了儿童对多词序列的知识是否可以解释长期以来代表语言发展研究中关键理论断层线的现象：问题产生中的主语-辅助非倒装错误（例如，“为什么我们不能出去？”在这样做时，我们考虑一种类型的错误，已被忽略的讨论多字序列的日期。以前的工作集中在遗漏的错误-缺乏准确的生产罕见的短语。然而，如果孩子们在他们的作品中使用专门的表征来表示频繁的单词序列，我们也可能会看到错误的委托--在孩子的演讲中出现频繁的短语，即使这些短语是不合适的。通过一系列的语料分析，我们提供了第一个证据，多词序列的全球输入频率（例如，“She is Going”出现在陈述性话语中）是它们错误外观的有价值的预测（例如，“你打算怎么办？”自然主义的演讲。这一发现，我们认为，构成了强有力的证据，多词序列可以表示为语言单位在自己的权利。
Psycholinguistic research over the past decade has suggested that children's linguistic knowledge includes dedicated representations for frequently‐encountered multiword sequences. Important evidence for this comes from studies of children's production: it has been repeatedly demonstrated that children's rate of speech errors is greater for word sequences that are infrequent and thus unfamiliar to them than for those that are frequent. In this study, we investigate whether children's knowledge of multiword sequences can explain a phenomenon that has long represented a key theoretical fault line in the study of language development: errors of subject‐auxiliary non‐inversion in question production (e.g., “why we can't go outside?*”). In doing so we consider a type of error that has been ignored in discussion of multiword sequences to date. Previous work has focused on errors of omission – an absence of accurate productions for infrequent phrases. However, if children make use of dedicated representations for frequent sequences of words in their productions, we might also expect to see errors of commission – the appearance of frequent phrases in children's speech even when such phrases are not appropriate. Through a series of corpus analyses, we provide the first evidence that the global input frequency of multiword sequences (e.g., “she is going” as it appears in declarative utterances) is a valuable predictor of their errorful appearance (e.g., the uninverted question “what she is going to do?*”) in naturalistic speech. This finding, we argue, constitutes powerful evidence that multiword sequences can be represented as linguistic units in their own right.
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影响因子：
1.9
作者：
Ambridge, Ben
通讯作者：
Ambridge, Ben
影响因子：
1.7
作者：
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影响因子：
2.5
作者：
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通讯作者：
Estigarribia, Bruno
影响因子：
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通讯作者：
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影响因子：
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作者：
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通讯作者：
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