Frequency, perceptual salience, and semantic complexity: The acquisition of possessor inflection in Northern East Cree.

IF 1.7 2区 文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS
Ryan E Henke
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This paper engages longstanding questions regarding how children acquire morphology in polysynthetic languages. It examines the roles of frequency, perceptual salience, and semantic complexity for morphemes in the acquisition of Northern East Cree possessive inflection, where prefixes and suffixes interact to encode possessors. Two studies analyze naturalistic video recordings of one adult and two children. Study 1 describes the frequency, salience, and complexity of possessor-encoding morphemes in the input. Study 2 traces the acquisition of these morphemes in child speech. Results indicate the acquisition of possessor inflection involves a combination of factors whose influences shift over time. Perceptual salience plays a key role in early noun production, but frequency later corresponds more clearly to acquisitional order for high-frequency morphemes. Complexity is hard to isolate from frequency, although neither factor clearly determines acquisitional order for low-frequency morphemes. The paper concludes by considering implications for science and potential applications for Cree communities.
频率、知觉显著性和语义复杂性:东北克里语中占有者语气词的习得。
本文探讨了儿童如何在多合成语言中习得语态这一长期存在的问题。它研究了在东克里北部占有词词缀的习得过程中,语素的频率、知觉显著性和语义复杂性所起的作用,在这种情况下,前缀和后缀相互作用,对占有词进行编码。两项研究分析了一名成人和两名儿童的自然视频记录。研究 1 描述了输入中占有词编码词素的频率、显著性和复杂性。研究 2 追踪了这些语素在儿童语音中的习得情况。结果表明,拥有者语气词的习得涉及多种因素,而这些因素的影响会随着时间的推移而改变。感知的显著性在早期的名词生成中起着关键作用,但后来频率与高频词素的习得顺序的对应关系更为明显。复杂性很难从频率中分离出来,尽管这两个因素都不能明确地决定低频词素的习得顺序。本文最后探讨了该研究对科学的影响以及在克里族群中的潜在应用。
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期刊介绍: A key publication in the field, Journal of Child Language publishes articles on all aspects of the scientific study of language behaviour in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it. The international range of authors and breadth of coverage allow the journal to forge links between many different areas of research including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and anthropology. This interdisciplinary approach spans a wide range of interests: phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, or any other recognised facet of language study.
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