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Autor/inn/en | Koulaguina, Elena; Shi, Rushen |
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Titel | Abstract Rule Learning in 11- and 14-Month-Old Infants |
Quelle | In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 42 (2013) 1, S.71-80 (10 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0090-6905 |
DOI | 10.1007/s10936-012-9208-4 |
Schlagwörter | Evidence; Syntax; Generalization; Language Acquisition; Infants; Sentences; Word Order; Psycholinguistics; Hypothesis Testing; Russian; Phonology; Morphology (Languages); Cues; Language Research |
Abstract | This study tests the hypothesis that distributional information can guide infants in the generalization of word order movement rules at the initial stage of language acquisition. Participants were 11- and 14-month-old infants. Stimuli were sentences in Russian, a language that was unknown to our infants. During training the word order of each sentence was transformed following a consistent pattern (e.g., ABC-BAC). During the test phase infants heard novel sentences that respected the trained rule and ones that violated the trained rule (i.e., a different transformation such as ABC-ACB). Stimuli words had highly variable phonological and morphological shapes. The cue available was the positional information of words and their non-adjacent relations across sentences. We found that 14-month-olds, but not 11-month-olds, showed evidence of abstract rule generalization to novel instances. The implications of this finding to early syntactic acquisition are discussed. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |