Stored word sequences in language learning - The effect of familiarity on children's repetition of four-word combinations
Stored word sequences in language learning - The effect of familiarity on children's repetition of four-word combinations
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02075.x
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Matthews, Danielle
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作者：
Bannard, Colin;Matthews, Danielle
最近对语法发展的研究表明，儿童会记住他们听到的话语，并对这些储存的范例进行概括。本研究通过测试对熟悉的单词序列的记忆来验证这些说法的假设，即儿童将话语作为整体存储。使用一个新的可用的、密集的儿童导向语音语料库，我们识别了输入中频繁出现的块（例如，坐在你的椅子上）并将它们与不频繁的序列（例如，坐在你的车里）。我们在重复重复测试中测试了幼儿产生这些序列的能力。3岁奥尔兹（n = 21）和2岁儿童（n = 17）更有可能正确地重复频繁序列，而不是正确地重复不频繁序列。此外，如果一个项目的前三个单词构成了一个组块的一部分，3岁的孩子重复它们的速度要快得多（例如，当下面的单词是椅子时，他们会更快地说坐在你的座位上，而不是卡车）。我们讨论了这些结果对语言发展和处理理论的影响。
Recent accounts of the development of grammar propose that children remember utterances they hear and draw generalizations over these stored exemplars. This study tested these accounts' assumption that children store utterances as wholes by testing memory for familiar sequences of words. Using a newly available, dense corpus of child-directed speech, we identified frequently occurring chunks in the input (e.g., sit in your chair) and matched them to infrequent sequences (e.g., sit in your truck). We tested young children's ability to produce these sequences in a sentence-repetition test. Three-year-olds (n = 21) and 2-year-olds (n = 17) were significantly more likely to repeat frequent sequences correctly than to repeat infrequent sequences correctly. Moreover, the 3-year-olds were significantly faster to repeat the first three words of an item if they formed part of a chunk (e.g., they were quicker to say sit in your when the following word was chair than when it was truck). We discuss the implications of these results for theories of language development and processing.