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摘要
先前的研究表明,婴儿储存功能性词素用于推断相邻单词的句法类别,而且他们在名词方面的表现通常比在动词方面好。在这项研究中,我们测试了幼儿在面对嘈杂的共现模式时是否可以利用短语分组进行句法分类。使用视觉固定程序,我们检查了学习普通话的19个月大的孩子是否可以在韵律中性的3字序列X-a-Y中将单词X分类到功能语素a的左边,其中a在结构上选择X(X和Y是不熟悉的单词)。19岁的婴儿 月熟悉X-ye-Y(‘even XN YV’)或X-le-Y(“have XV ed YN”)。虽然le的分布比ye更为混合,但19个月大的孩子在ye和le方面都取得了成功,他们更喜欢X的语法新上下文,而不是非语法上下文,这与短语分组([Xa…])支持句法分类的假设一致。我们的研究结果为婴儿捕捉功能语素进行后向句法分类的能力提供了初步证据。
Toddlers use functional morphemes for backward syntactic categorization
Previous studies show that infants store functional morphemes for inferring syntactic categories of adjacent words, and they generally perform better with nouns than with verbs. In this study, we tested whether toddlers can exploit phrasal groupings for syntactic categorization in the face of noisy co-occurrence patterns. Using a visual fixation procedure, we examined whether Mandarin-learning 19-month-olds can categorize word X to the left of functional morpheme a in a prosody-neutral 3-word sequence X-a-Y, where a structurally selects X (X and Y being unfamiliar words). Infants at 19 months were familiarized either with X-ye-Y (‘even XN YV’) or with X-le-Y (‘have XV-ed YN’). While le features a more mixed distribution than ye, 19-month-olds succeeded with both ye and le by preferring grammatical new contexts of X over ungrammatical ones, consistent with the hypothesis that phrasal groupings ([Xa. . .]) support syntactic categorization. Our findings provide initial evidence for infants’ ability to capture functional morphemes for backward syntactic categorization.
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First Language is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research in child language acquisition. Child language research is multidisciplinary and this is reflected in the contents of the journal: research from diverse theoretical and methodological traditions is welcome. Authors from a wide range of disciplines - including psychology, linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, neuroscience, communication, sociology and education - are regularly represented in our pages. Empirical papers range from individual case studies, through experiments, observational/ naturalistic, analyses of CHILDES corpora, to parental surveys.