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The usefulness of phonological information for the acquisition of grammatical structure in child language development

During the process of language development, one of the most important tasks that children must face is that of identifying the grammatical category to which words in their language belong. This is essential in order to be able to form grammatically correct utterances. How do children proceed in order to classify words in their language and assign them to their corresponding grammatical category? The present study investigates the usefulness of phonological information for the categorization of nouns in English, given the fact that it is phonology the first source of information that might be available to prelinguistic infants who lack access to semantic information or complex morphosyntactic information. We analyse four different corpora containing linguistic samples of English speaking mothers addressing their children in order to explore the reliability with which words are represented in mothers’ speech based on several phonological criteria. The results of the analysis confirm the prediction that most of the words to which English learning infants are exposed during the first two years of life can be accounted for in terms of their phonological resemblance

Revista INFAD de Psicología : International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology, 2011, vol. 1, núm. 1, p. 473-482

Asociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia, Adolescencia y Mayores (INFAD)

Autor: Feijóo, Sara
Serrat Sellabona, Elisabet
Data: 2011
Resum: During the process of language development, one of the most important tasks that children must face is that of identifying the grammatical category to which words in their language belong. This is essential in order to be able to form grammatically correct utterances. How do children proceed in order to classify words in their language and assign them to their corresponding grammatical category? The present study investigates the usefulness of phonological information for the categorization of nouns in English, given the fact that it is phonology the first source of information that might be available to prelinguistic infants who lack access to semantic information or complex morphosyntactic information. We analyse four different corpora containing linguistic samples of English speaking mothers addressing their children in order to explore the reliability with which words are represented in mothers’ speech based on several phonological criteria. The results of the analysis confirm the prediction that most of the words to which English learning infants are exposed during the first two years of life can be accounted for in terms of their phonological resemblance
Format: application/pdf
ISSN: 0214-9877
Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/9730
Llenguatge: eng
Editor: Asociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia, Adolescencia y Mayores (INFAD)
Col·lecció: Reproducció digital del document publicat a: http://infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/2011/n1/volumen1/INFAD_010123_473-482.pdf
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És part de: Revista INFAD de Psicología : International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology, 2011, vol. 1, núm. 1, p. 473-482
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URI Drets: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
Matèria: Llenguatge i llengües -- Adquisició
Language acquisition
Títol: The usefulness of phonological information for the acquisition of grammatical structure in child language development
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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