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PMID: 22434559 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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This study tests the hypothesis that distributional information can guide infants in the generalization of word order movement rules at the initial stage of language acquisition. Participants were 11- and 14-month-old infants. Stimuli were sentences in Russian, a language that was unknown to our infants. During training the word order of each sentence was transformed following a consistent pattern (e.g., ABC-BAC). During the test phase infants heard novel sentences that respected the trained rule and ones that violated the trained rule (i.e., a different transformation such as ABC-ACB). Stimuli words had highly variable phonological and morphological shapes. The cue available was the positional information of words and their non-adjacent relations across sentences. We found that 14-month-olds, but not 11-month-olds, showed evidence of abstract rule generalization to novel instances. The implications of this finding to early syntactic acquisition are discussed. |
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Elena Koulaguina; Rushen Shi |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-3-21 |
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Title: Journal of psycholinguistic research Volume: - ISSN: 1573-6555 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 Mar |
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Created Date: 2012-3-21 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0333506 Medline TA: J Psycholinguist Res Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada. |
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