Initial morphological learning in preverbal infants

Cognition

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-66

  Marquis, Alexandra ^a   Shi, Rushen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Function words morphemes; Infant speech processing; Language acquisition; Morphological learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERPRETER SERVICE; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH THERAPY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS;

EID: 81055156109     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Bernal S., Lidz J., Millote S., Christophe A. Syntax constrains the acquisition of verb meaning. Language Learning and Development 2007, 3(4):325-341.
2. Brown R. A first language 1973, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
3. Cécyre, M.-J. & Shi, R. (2005). Speech rate in maternal speech to French-learning infants. Paper presented at the 15th meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Montreal, Canada.
4. Corrêa L.M.S., Name M.C.L. The processing of determiner-noun agreement and the identification of the gender of nouns in the early acquisition of Portuguese. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 2003, 1:19-43.
5. Curtin, S., Mintz, T. H., & Byrd, D. (2001). Coarticulatory cues enhance infants' recognition of syllable sequences in speech. In A. H.-J. Do, L. Domínguez, A. Johansen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 1, pp. 190-201). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
6. Cutler A. Phonological cues to open- and closed-class words in the processing of spoken sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 1993, 22(2):109-131.
7. Eilers R.E. Suprasegmental and grammatical control over telegraphic speech in young children. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 1975, 4(3):227-239.
8. Gentner, D. (1982). Why nouns are learned before verbs: Linguistic relativity versus natural partitioning. In S. Kuczaj II (Ed.), Language development, Language, thought and culture (Vol. 2, pp. 301-334). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
9. Gerken L.A., Landau B., Remez R.E. Function morphemes in young children's speech perception and production. Developmental Psychology 1990, 26(2):204-216.
10. Gerken L.A., Wilson R., Lewis W. Infants can use distributional cues to form syntactic categories. Journal of Child Language 2005, 32(2):249-268.
11. Gómez R.L., Lakusta L. A first step in form-based category abstraction by 12-month-old infants. Developmental Science 2004, 7(5):567-580.
12. Hallé P.A., Durand C., de Boysson-Bardies B. Do 11-month-old French infants process articles?. Language and Speech 2008, 51:23-44.
13. Hochmann J.-R., Endress A.D., Mehler J. Word frequency as a cue to identify function words in infancy. Cognition 2010, 115(3):444-457.
14. Höhle B., Schmitz M., Santelmann L.M., Weissenborn J. The recognition of discontinuous verbal dependencies by German 19-month-olds: Evidence for lexical and structural influences on children's early processing capacities. Language Learning and Development 2006, 2(4):277-300.
15. Höhle B., Weissenborn J. German-learning infants' ability to detect unstressed closed-class elements in continuous speech. Developmental Science 2003, 6(2):122-127.
16. Höhle B., Weissenborn J., Kiefer D., Schulz A., Schmitz M. Functional elements in infants' speech processing: The role of determiners in the syntactic categorization of lexical elements. Infancy 2004, 5(3):341-353.
17. Johnson, E. K. (2005). Grammatical gender and early word recognition in Dutch. In A. Brugos, M. R. Clark-Cotton, & S. Ha (Eds.), BUCLD 29: Proceedings of the 29th annual Boston university conference on language development (Vol. 1, pp. 320-330). Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
18. Johnson E.K., Jusczyk P.W. Word segmentation by 8-month-olds: When speech cues count more than statistics. Journal of Memory and Language 2001, 44(4):548-567.
19. Lew-Williams C., Fernald A. Young children learning Spanish make rapid use of grammatical gender in spoken word recognition. Psychological Science 2007, 18(3):193-198.
20. Marquis A., Shi R. Segmentation of verb forms in preverbal infants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2008, 123(4):EL105-EL110.
21. Mintz, T. H. (2004). Morphological segmentation in 15-month-old infants. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulaa, & C. E. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 2, pp. 363-374). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
22. Mintz T.H. Finding the verbs: Distributional cues to categories available to young learners. Action meets word: How children learn verbs 2006, 31-63. Oxford University Press, New York. K. Hirsh-Pasek, R.M. Golinkoff (Eds.).
23. Monaghan P., Christiansen M.H., Chater N. The phonological-distributional coherence hypothesis: Cross-linguistic evidence in language acquisition. Cognitive Psychology 2007, 55(4):259-305.
24. Saffran J.R., Aslin R.N., Newport E.L. Statistical learning by 8-month-old children. Science 1996, 274(5294):1926-1928.
25. Santelmann L.M., Jusczyk P.W. Sensitivity to discontinuous dependencies in language learners: Evidence for processing limitations. Cognition 1998, 69(2):105-134.
26. Shafer V.L., Shucard D.W., Shucard J.L., Gerken L.A. An electrophysiological study of infants' sensitivity to the sound patterns of English speech. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 1998, 41(4):874-886.
27. Shi R., Cutler A., Werker J.F., Cruickshank M. Frequency and form as determinants of functor sensitivity in English-acquiring infants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2006, 119(6):EL61-EL67.
28. Shi R., Lepage M. The effect of functional morphemes on word segmentation in preverbal infants. Developmental Science 2008, 11(3):407-413.
29. Shi R., Melançon A. Syntactic categorization in French-learning infants. Infancy 2010, 15(5):517-533.
30. Shi R., Morgan J.L., Allopenna P. Phonological and acoustic bases for earliest grammatical category assignment: A cross-linguistic perspective. Journal of Child Language 1998, 25:169-201.
31. Shi R., Werker J.F. Six-month-old infants' preference for lexical words. Psychological Science 2001, 12(1):70-75.
32. Shi R., Werker J.F. Basis of preference for lexical words in 6-month-old infants. Developmental Science 2003, 6(5):484-488.
33. Shi R., Werker J.F., Cutler A. Recognition and representation of function words in English-learning infants. Infancy 2006, 10(2):187-198.
34. Shi R., Werker J.F., Morgan J.L. Newborn infants' sensitivity to perceptual cues to lexical and grammatical words. Cognition 1999, 72(2):B11-B21.
35. Van Heugten M., Shi R. French-learning toddlers use gender information on determiners during word recognition. Developmental Science 2009, 12(3):419-425.
36. Van Heugten M., Shi R. Infants' sensitivity to non-adjacent dependencies across phonological phrase boundaries. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2010, 128(5):EL223-EL228.
37. Vouloumanos A., Werker J.F. Tuned to the signal: The privileged status of speech for young infants. Developmental Science 2004, 7(3):270-276.