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Wirangu and Gugada - the survival prospects of two neighbouring Australian languages
Monaghan, P.. - 2007
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The phonological-distributional coherence hypothesis: Cross-linguistic evidence in language acquisition
In: COGNITIVE PSYCHOL , 55 (4) 259 - 305. (2007) (2007)
Abstract: Several phonological and prosodic properties of words have been shown to relate to differences between grammatical categories. Distributional information about grammatical categories is also a rich source in the child's language environment. In this paper we hypothesise that such cues operate in tandem for developing the child's knowledge about grammatical categories. We term this the Phonological-Distributional Coherence Hypothesis (PDCH). We tested the PDCH by analysing phonological and distributional information in distinguishing open from closed class words and nouns from verbs in four languages: English, Dutch, French, and Japanese. We found an interaction between phonological and distributional cues for all four languages indicating that when distributional cues were less reliable, phonological cues were stronger. This provides converging evidence that language is structured such that language learning benefits from the integration of information about category from contextual and sound-based sources, and that the child's language environment is less impoverished than we might suspect. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keyword: ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE; CUES; FREQUENCY; GENDER; GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY ASSIGNMENTS; INFANTS; INFORMATION; SPEECH SEGMENTATION; SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES; WORD SEGMENTATION
URL: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/148114/
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