Acquiring basic word order
Evidence for data-driven learning of syntactic structure
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 20366389 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Nameera Akhtar (0000-0003-1174-2600, University of California, Santa Cruz, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1999 |
| Volumen | 26 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 339-356 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1999-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s030500099900375x |
| PMID | 11706469 |
| OpenAlex | W2034515585 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 61 |
Recent studies indicate that young English-speaking children do not have a general understanding of the significance of SVO order in reversible sentences; that is, they seem to rely on verb-specific formulas (e.g. NP pusher – form of the verb PUSH – NP pushee ) to interpret such sentences (Akhtar & Tomasello, 1997). This finding raises the possibility that young children may be open to learning non-SVO structures with novel transitive verbs. To test this hypothesis, 12 children in each of three age groups (two-year-olds, three-year-olds, and four-year-olds) were taught novel verbs, one in each of three sentence positions: medial (SVO), final (SOV), and initial (VSO). The younger age groups were equally likely to use the novel (non-English) orders spontaneously as to correct them to SVO order, whereas the oldest children consistently corrected these structures to SVO order. These results suggest that English-speaking children's acquisition of a truly general understanding of SVO order may be a gradual process involving generalization (learning) from examples. The findings are discussed in terms of recent data-driven learning accounts of grammar acquisition
Animacy · Cognitive psychology · Generalization · Grammar · Language acquisition · Linguistics · Sentence · Syntax · Transitive relation · Verb · Word order · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
Analogy in Grammar
Markedness, input frequency, and the acquisition of inflection
Learning argument structure generalizations
The acquisition of the active transitive construction in English
The nature of generalization in language
Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax
Investigating the abstractness of children's early knowledge of argument structure
Lifecycle of a probabilistic construction
How Children Constrain Their Argument Structure Constructions
Pragmatic directions about language use
Implicit statistical learning is directly associated with the acquisition of syntax
Language Origin from an Emergentist Perspective
Analogy in grammar
Grammar
Bilingual Language Acquisition
Constructions at Work
The language‐specific nature of grammatical development
The item-based nature of children’s early syntactic development
Becoming syntactic.
Fast mapping between a phrasal form and meaning
Parts and wholes
Testing the abstractness of children's linguistic representations
Do young children have adult syntactic competence?
The acquisition of linking theories
Early knowledge of word order in Palestinian Arabic
Simple Monotransitive and Complex Dative Alternation Predicates in Spanish Monolingual Child Acquisition Data
Integration of Verbal and Constructional Information in the Second Language Processing of English Dative Constructions
Language Complexity and Intersubjectivity in Narratives Written by Colombian Children
The illusion of language acquisition
Simple vs. complex transitive constructions in the acquisition of English structures
The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition
The interplay of verbs and argument structure constructions in second language processing
Assessment of sentence sophistication in L2 spoken production
The acquisition of English active and passive monotransitive constructions by English–Spanish simultaneous bilingual children
Moving in small steps towards verb second
Learning to construct sentences in Spanish
The influence of discourse context on children's provision of auxiliary BE
Do children treat adjectives and nouns differently as modifiers in prenominal position
Constructivist Approaches to First Language Acquisition
Early verb learning in 20-month-old Japanese-speaking children
Do infants have abstract grammatical knowledge of word order at 17 months? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
Early morphological productivity in Hungarian
Exploring early syntactic generalisation
Input sources of third person singular - s inconsistency in children with and without specific language impairment
Exemplar-learning and schematization in a usage-based account of syntactic acquisition
Social factors in the acquisition of a new word order
Children’s acquisition of word order depends on syntactic/semantic role
German-speaking children’s productivity with syntactic constructions and case morphology
The role of dialogue in the ontogeny and phylogeny of early symbol combinations
Word order and information structure in Czech 3- and 4-year-olds’ comprehension
Acquisition of cumulative conditioning effects on words
Against stored abstractions
Knowledge of the OV parameter setting at 19 months
First steps toward a usage-based theory of language acquisition
Language acquisition without an acquisition device
The role of pronouns in young children's acquisition of the English transitive construction
Word Family Size and French-Speaking Children's Segmentation of Existing Compounds
Linking Rule Acquisition in Novel Phrasal Constructions
Revisiting evidence for lexicalized word order in young children
Bootstrapping mechanisms in first language acquisition
Combining Language Corpora With Experimental and Computational Approaches for Language Acquisition Research
| Obras citantes distintas | 61 |
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| Citas por año | 2,26 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 50 |