The Acquisition of Lexical Structure

该项目探讨了儿童如何达到 成年人对相对可接受性的直觉 复杂的词。它的目的是通过系统地探讨 单词形成过程的各种特征（例如， 语音、语义、词源、频率、阻塞）， 可能对孩子的词汇归纳很重要。 的 主要方法将是使用句子完成， 复合词形成、词汇判断和图片匹配。多 到目前为止，词汇习得的研究主要集中在什么时候 孩子们掌握了构词规则，如复合和 附加，但目前还不清楚这些过程如何适应 词汇本身的发展结构。 的数据 该项目在目前的框架内进行了评估， 词汇结构的语言模型，将提供一个统一的 叙述各种构词过程并提出方法 在孩子的词汇中形成什么样的结构。

This project addresses the question of how children arrive at the intuitions adults have about the relative acceptability of complex words. It aims to do so by systematic exploration of various characteristics of word-formation processes (e.g., phonological, semantic, etymological, frequency, blocking) that might be significant in the child's lexical induction. The primary methodologies will be use of sentence completion, compound formation, lexical decision, and picture matching. Much of research to date on lexical acquisition focuses on when children acquire word-formation rules such as compounding and affixation, but it is as yet unclear how such processes fit into the developing structure of the lexicon itself. The data from this project, evaluated within the framework of current linguistic models of lexical structure, will provide a unified account of a variety of word-formation processes and suggest ways in which structure might develop within the child's lexicon.