Noun Imageability Facilitates the Acquisition of Plurals: Survival Analysis of Plural Emergence in Children

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Noun Imageability Facilitates the Acquisition of Plurals: Survival Analysis of Plural Emergence in Children

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Noun Imageability Facilitates the Acquisition of Plurals: Survival Analysis of Plural Emergence in Children

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AN - Psychologie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GAP407%2F10%2F2047" target="_blank" >GAP407/10/2047: Porozumění gramatice a lexikonu u batolat: větná shoda, slovosled, aktuální členění a jejich vývojové souvislosti s lexikem</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2014

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

ISSN

0090-6905

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

43

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

335-350

Kód UT WoS článku

000337287600002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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