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Syrett, Kristen; Musolino, Julien; Gelman, Rochel – Language Learning and Development, 2012
We expand upon a previous proposal by Bloom and Wynn (1997) that young children learn about the meaning of number words by tracking their occurrence in particular syntactic environments, in combination with the discourse context in which they are used. An analysis of the Childes database (MacWhinney, 2000) reveals that the environments studied by…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Language Acquisition, Infants