The Origins of Grammar: Evidence from Early Language Comprehension
- ISBN-10
- 026208242X
- ISBN-13
- 9780262082426
- Series
- The Origins of Grammar
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 230
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996-01-01
- Publisher
- Bradford Books
- Authors
- Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta M. Golinkoff
Description
The Origins of Grammar presents a synthesis of work done by the authors, using one of the most important methodological advances in language learning in the past decade: the intermodal preferential looking paradigm, which can be used to assess lexical and syntactic knowledge in children as young as thirteen months of age. In addition to drawing together their ground-breaking empirical work, the authors use these results to describe a theory of language learning that emphasizes the role of multiple cues and forces in development. They show how infants shift their reliance on different aspects of linguistic input, moving from a bias to attend to prosodic information to a reliance on semantic information, and finally to a reliance on the syntax itself.
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