Mandarin learners use syntactic bootstrapping in verb acquisition

Mandarin Chinese allows pervasive ellipsis of noun arguments (NPs) in discourse, which casts doubt concerning child learners’ use of syntax in verb learning. This study investigated whether Mandarin learning children would nonetheless extend verb meanings based on the number of NPs in sentences. For...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Cognition 2008-02, Vol.106 (2), p.1028-1037
Hauptverfasser:	Lee, Joanne N., Naigles, Letitia R.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological and medical sciences Bootstrap mechanism Child Child development Child Language Child, Preschool China Chinese Cue to causativity Developmental psychology Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Humans Language Acquisition Language Development Language-general Learning Learning Processes Male Mandarin Chinese Mandarin language Newborn. Infant Nouns Number of arguments Phrase Structure Psycholinguistics Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Sentences Syntactic bootstrapping Syntax Toddlers Verb acquisition Verbs
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