LEXICAL AND SYNTACTIC DEVELOPMENT IN INFANCY

目前，人们对语言的发展知之甚少。 语言前的婴儿和幼儿。然而，研究 研究表明，婴儿在第一次学习语言时， 几个月，特别是在语言的声音结构方面。 本文提出的研究的第一个目标是评估 语言是婴儿通过一般心理学学习来学习的 利用婴儿在周围听到的语言的机制。这将 通过对年轻人的语音语料库进行计算建模， 儿童，并通过对婴儿的感知实验。第二个目标 这项研究的目的是建立一个能够评估个人的程序， 儿童对单词准确记忆的发展。本程序将 然后用于调查儿童之间可能的变异来源， 在词汇学习、词汇表征和理解效率方面 演讲对一岁婴儿的纵向研究将检查 发展成人一样的形式的话，为什么个别婴儿可能 在早期的语言学习中有所不同。

At present very little is known about language development in prelinguistic infants and young children. However, research has demonstrated that infants do learn about their language over the first several months ,particularly in terms of the language's sound structure. The first goal of the research proposed here is to assess what elements of language are learned by infants using general psychological learning mechanisms capitalizing on the speech infants hear around them. This will be done through computational modeling of corpora of speech to young children, and through perceptual experiments with infants. The second goal of the research is to create a procedure capable of assessing individual children's development of accurate memory for words. This procedure will then be used to investigate possible sources of variation between children in word learning, word representation, and efficiency in understanding speech. Longitudinal studies of one-year-old infants will examine the development of adult like forms of words, and why individual infants may differ in early language learning.