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Shape, Material, and Syntax: Interacting Forces in Children's Learning In Novel Words for Objects and Substances.
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Subrahmanyam, Kaveri; Landau, Barbara; Gelman, Rochel – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999
Three studies examined the role of ontological and syntactic information in children's learning of words for physical entities, such as objects and substances. Results reveal a strong and changing developmental interaction for the use of ontologically relevant perceptual information, labels, and syntax. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Pictorial Stimuli, Syntax, Vocabulary Development
Reflections on Phonological Bootstrapping: Its Role for Lexical and Syntactic Acquisition.
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Christophe, Anne; Guasti, Teresa; Nespor, Marina; Van Ooyen, Brit; Dupoux, Emmanuel – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Reviews the hypothesis, "phonological bootstrapping," that a purely phonological analysis of the speech signal may allow infants to start acquiring the lexicon and syntax of their native language. Study presents a model of phonological bootstrapping of the lexicon and syntax that helps illustrate the congruence between problems. Article argues…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language, Hypothesis Testing
Integrating Form and Meaning: A Distributed Model of Speech Perception.
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Gaskell, M. Gareth; Marslen-Wilson, William D. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Presents a distributed connectionist model of the perception of spoken words, employing speech representation that combines lexical and abstract phonological information, with lexical access as a direct mapping on this distributed representation. The article examines the integration of partial cues to phonological identity, showing that the model…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Data Analysis, Linguistic Theory
On the Inseparability of Grammar and the Lexicon: Evidence from Acquisition, Aphasia and Real-Time Processing.
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Bates, Elizabeth; Goodman, Judith C. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Notes that in linguistic theory, phenomena previously handled by a separate grammatical component have been moved into the lexicon and that in some theories, the contrast between grammar and the lexicon has vanished. Concludes that the case for a modular distinction between grammar and the lexicon has been overstated and that the evidence to date…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Change Agents, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics