Artículo
Do simple syntactic heuristics to verb meaning hold up? Testing the structure mapping account over spontaneous speech to Spanish-learning children
Fecha de publicación:
12/2020
Editorial:
Cambridge University Press
Revista:
Canadian Journal of Linguistics
ISSN:
0008-4131
e-ISSN:
1710-1115
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
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Resumen
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.
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Articulos de CENTRO INTER. DE INV. EN PSICOLOGIA MATEMATICA Y EXP. "DR. HORACIO J.A RIMOLDI"
Articulos de CENTRO INTER. DE INV. EN PSICOLOGIA MATEMATICA Y EXP. "DR. HORACIO J.A RIMOLDI"
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Audisio, Cynthia Pamela; Migdalek, Maia Julieta; Do simple syntactic heuristics to verb meaning hold up? Testing the structure mapping account over spontaneous speech to Spanish-learning children; Cambridge University Press; Canadian Journal of Linguistics; 65; 4; 12-2020; 556-582
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