کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
916732 918883 2008 19 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Graded representations in the acquisition of English and German transitive constructions
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی رشد و آموزشی
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Graded representations in the acquisition of English and German transitive constructions
چکیده انگلیسی

English and German children aged 2 years 4 months and 4 years heard both novel and familiar verbs in sentences whose form was grammatical, but which mismatched the event they were watching (e.g., ‘The frog is pushing the lion’, when the lion was actually the ‘agent’ or ‘doer’ of the pushing). These verbs were then elicited in new sentences. All children mostly corrected the familiar verb (i.e., they used the agent as the grammatical subject), but there were cross-linguistic differences among the two-year-olds concerning the novel verb. When English 2-year-olds used the novel verb they mostly corrected. However, their most frequent response was to avoid using the novel verb altogether. German 2-year-olds corrected the novel verb significantly more often than their English counterparts, demonstrating more robust verb-general representations of agent- and patient-marking. These findings provide support for a ‘graded representations’ view of development, which proposes that grammatical representations may be simultaneously abstract but ‘weak’.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Cognitive Development - Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 48–66
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