Bootstrapping lexical and syntactic acquisition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20035903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Perrine Brusini (0000-0003-0703-7765, University of Cambridge), Antônio De Carvalho (0000-0002-2938-0049, École Normale Supérieure - PSL), Alex De Carvalho (0000-0001-6525-3170), Isabelle Dautriche (0000-0002-2297-985X, University of Edinburgh), Ariel Gutman (0000-0002-0691-8387, University of Konstanz), Élodie Cauvet (0000-0003-3183-7690, Karolinska Institutet), Séverine Millotte (Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté), Pascal Amsili (0000-0002-5901-5050, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Anne Christophe, Anne‐caroline Fiévet (0000-0001-7695-7528, École Normale Supérieure - PSL) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 63-80 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/tilar.22.04bru |
| OpenAlex | W2793171025 |
| ISBN | 9789027244123 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 45 |
How does language acquisition start? Having access to words and their meaning should help infants to learn about syntax, but learning about word meaning would be facilitated if infants had access to syntactic structure ( Gleitman 1990 ). Phrasal prosody and function words may bootstrap lexical and syntactic acquisition. Infants have access to phonological phrases, and they use these to constrain the syntactic analysis of utterances by 18 months. At that same age, they can use function words to infer the syntactic category of unknown content words (nouns vs. verbs) and guess their plausible meaning (object vs. action). Moreover, computational work suggests that infants might be able to learn noun and verb contexts by generalizing from a small number of known words (the semantic seed)
Econometrics · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Reading and Literacy Development · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |