Noun Imageability Facilitates the Acquisition of Plurals: Survival Analysis of Plural Emergence in Children
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10936-013-9255-5" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10936-013-9255-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10936-013-9255-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10936-013-9255-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Noun Imageability Facilitates the Acquisition of Plurals: Survival Analysis of Plural Emergence in Children
Original language description
Research in child language suggests that semantically general verbs appear in grammatical structures earlier than semantically complex, specific ones. The present study examines whether this was the case in nouns, using imageability as a proxy measure ofsemantic generality. Longitudinal corpus data from 12 children from CHILDES were used to obtain information on the first occurrence of plurals. A total of 3,560 uninflected nouns were identified in the corpora, of which 1,202 were observed in the plural. Survival analyses indicated that the chance of observing a plural form increases with the imageability rating of the noun, even after accounting for the age of acquisition of the uninflected noun, maternal input frequency, and word length. Noun imageability thus facilitates the acquisition of plural forms. This finding contradicts the observations from verbs, and indicates that the acquisition of grammar is facilitated by high imageability rather than semantic generality.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AN - Psychology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP407%2F10%2F2047" target="_blank" >GAP407/10/2047: Comprehension of grammar and lexicon in toddlers: agreement, word order, information structure and their relationships with lexicon</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
ISSN
0090-6905
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Volume of the periodical
43
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
335-350
UT code for WoS article
000337287600002
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