کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
926894 921911 2006 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
From semantics to syntax and back again: Argument structure in the third year of life
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
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From semantics to syntax and back again: Argument structure in the third year of life
چکیده انگلیسی

An essential part of the human capacity for language is the ability to link conceptual or semantic representations with syntactic representations. On the basis of data from spontaneous production, Tomasello (2000) suggested that young children acquire such links on a verb-by-verb basis, with little in the way of a general understanding of linguistic argument structure. Here, we suggest that a receptive understanding of argument structure—including principles linking syntax and conceptual/semantic structure—appears earlier. In a forced-choice pointing task we have shown that toddlers in the third year of life can map a single scene (involving a novel causative action paired with a novel verb) onto two distinct syntactic frames (transitive and intransitive). This suggests that even before toddlers begin generalizing argument structure in their own speech, they have some representation of conceptual/semantic categories, syntactic categories, and a system that links the two.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Cognition - Volume 100, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages B10–B20
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