Do simple syntactic heuristics to verb meaning hold up? Testing the structure mapping account over spontaneous speech to Spanish-learning children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20259282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cynthia Pamela Audisio (0000-0001-8691-4257, Centro Científico Tecnológico - Tucumán, corresponding author), Maia Julieta Migdalek (0000-0001-5040-6453, Centro Científico Tecnológico - Tucumán, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 556-582 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4131 • E-ISSN: 1710-1115 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cnj.2020.21 |
| OpenAlex | W3104116872 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 44 |
Experimental research has shown that English-learning children as young as 19 months, as well as children learning other languages (e.g., Mandarin), infer some aspects of verb meanings by mapping the nominal elements in the utterance onto participants in the event expressed by the verb. The present study assessed this structure or analogical mapping mechanism (SAMM) on naturalistic speech in the linguistic environment of 20 Spanish-learning infants from Argentina (average age 19 months). This study showed that the SAMM performs poorly – at chance level – especially when only noun phrases (NPs) included in experimental studies of the SAMM were parsed. If agreement morphology is considered, the performance is slightly above chance but still very poor. In addition, it was found that the SAMM performs better on intransitive and transitive verbs, compared to ditransitives. Agreement morphology has a beneficial effect only on transitive and ditransitive verbs. On the whole, concerns are raised about the role of the SAMM in infants’ interpretation of verb meaning in natural exchanges
Heuristics · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Natural (archaeology) · Noun · Parsing · Transitive relation · Utterance · Verb · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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