U.S.-Australia Project Development Visit: Investigating the Relation Between Early Syntactic and Vocabulary Development Using a New Comprehension Paradigm

9731870 Naigles此次提案开发访问将允许首席研究员、耶鲁大学的Letitia Naigles教授前往澳大利亚维多利亚州的Latrobe大学，为期两周，与Latrobe大学心理科学学院的Edith Bavin讨论一个合作研究项目。本研究的主题是早期句法和词汇发展之间的关系。以往的研究都是从语言产生的角度来探讨这一问题，结果喜忧参半。他们将采用新的方法--优先看的理解方法来评估幼儿的语法知识。该项目将在澳大利亚建立新的方法，从而更准确地评估世界各地学习英语的儿童的语言知识。澳大利亚研究员伊迪丝·巴文因其语言研究而享誉国际。她最近将注意力转向了知识的获取，特别是澳大利亚本土语言的获取。因此，这种合作也有可能在英语以外的语言习得知识的基础上增加对主要问题的洞察。这是一种新的伙伴关系，有望加强美国和澳大利亚在语言学方面的合作。

9731870 Naigles This proposal development visit will allow the principal investigator, Professor Letitia Naigles of Yale University, to travel to LaTrobe University in Victoria, Australia, for two weeks to discuss a cooperative research project with Edith Bavin of the LaTrobe University School of Psychological Science. The subject of the study is the relationship between early syntactic and vocabulary development. Previous studies have approached the problem from the point of language production, with mixed results. The new method they will apply, comprehension method of preferential looking, to assess young children's grammatical knowledge. The project will establish the new method in Australia leading to more accurate assessments of linguistic knowledge in children acquiring English around the world. The Australian investigator, Edith Bavin, is internationally known and respected for her linguistic research. She has recently turned her attention to the acquisition of knowledge, particularly native languages of Australia. Thus this collaboration also holds the possibility of increased insight on the main problem based on knowledge of acquisition of languages other than English. This is a new partnership which promises to lead to increased cooperation in linguistics between the United States and Australia.