Subtlety of Ambient-Language Effects in Babbling: A Study of English- and Chinese-Learning Infants at 8, 10, and 12 Months [0.03%]
婴儿语言 babbling 中环境语言作用的微妙性：对8、10和12个月大的英语学习者及汉语学习者的研究
Chia-Cheng Lee,Yuna Jhang,Li-Mei Chen et al.
Chia-Cheng Lee et al.
Prior research on ambient-language effects in babbling has often suggested infants produce language-specific phonological features within the first year. These results have been questioned in research failing to find such effects and challe...
Does the approximate number system serve as a foundation for symbolic mathematics? [0.03%]
近似数系统是符号数学的基础吗？
Emily Szkudlarek,Elizabeth M Brannon
Emily Szkudlarek
Input Subject Diversity Enhances Early Grammatical Growth: Evidence from a Parent-Implemented Intervention [0.03%]
输入主题的多样性可增强早期语法发展：来自父母实施干预措施的证据
Pamela A Hadley,Matthew Rispoli,Janet K Holt et al.
Pamela A Hadley et al.
Purpose: The current study used an intervention design to test the hypothesis that parent input sentences with diverse lexical noun phrase (NP) subjects would accelerate growth in children's sentence diversity. ...
Two- and three-year-olds track a single meaning during word learning: Evidence for Propose-but-verify [0.03%]
基于提出的假设进行验证：有关两岁和三岁的孩子在学习词汇时会跟踪单个含义的证据
Kristina Woodard,Lila R Gleitman,John C Trueswell
Kristina Woodard
A child word-learning experiment is reported that examines 2- and 3-year-olds' ability to learn the meanings of novel words across multiple, referentially ambiguous, word occurrences. Children were told they were going on an animal safari i...
Marcus E Galle,Keith S Apfelbaum,Bob McMurray
Marcus E Galle
Recent work has demonstrated that the addition of multiple talkers during habituation improves 14-month-olds' performance in the switch task (Rost & McMurray, 2009). While the authors suggest that this boost in performance is due to the inc...
The influence of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on children's production of newly learned words [0.03%]
音系概率和邻近词密度对儿童产生新学词汇的影响
Lori Heisler,Lisa Goffman
Lori Heisler
A word learning paradigm was used to teach children novel words that varied in phonotactic probability and neighborhood density. The effects of frequency and density on speech production were examined when phonetic forms were non-referentia...
Does the Owl Fly out of the Tree or Does the Owl Exit the Tree Flying? How L2 Learners Overcome Their L1 Lexicalization Biases [0.03%]
猫头鹰是从树里飞出来的还是从会飞的树中出来的问题——学习者如何克服第一语言的词汇化偏见
Lulu Song,Rachel Pulverman,Christina Pepe et al.
Lulu Song et al.
Learning a language is more than learning its vocabulary and grammar. For example, compared to English, Spanish uses many more path verbs such as ascender ('to move upward') and salir ('to go out'), and expresses manner of motion optionally...
German Children's Use of Word Order and Case Marking to Interpret Simple and Complex Sentences: Testing Differences Between Constructions and Lexical Items [0.03%]
德语儿童利用词序和格标记来理解简单句和复杂句：检验句法结构与词汇项目的不同点
Silke Brandt,Elena Lieven,Michael Tomasello
Silke Brandt
Children and adults follow cues such as case marking and word order in their assignment of semantic roles in simple transitives (e.g., the dog chased the cat). It has been suggested that the same cues are used for the interpretation of comp...
Katherine D Kinzler,Kristin Shutts,Elizabeth S Spelke
Katherine D Kinzler
Monolingual English-speaking children in the United States express social preferences for speakers of their native language with a native accent. Here we explore the nature of children's language-based social preferences through research wi...
Semantic ambiguity and syntactic bootstrapping: The case of conjoined-subject intransitive sentences [0.03%]
语义歧义和句法引导：联合主语不及格句的例子
Lucia Pozzan,Lila R Gleitman,John C Trueswell
Lucia Pozzan
When learning verb meanings, learners capitalize on universal linguistic correspondences between syntactic and semantic structure. For instance, upon hearing the transitive sentence "the boy is glorping the girl" two-year olds prefer a two-...