The transition to grammar in a bilingual child: Positional patterns, model learning, and relational words.  

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Vihman, Marilyn May

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 3 no. 2-3 (Jun. 1999), page 267-299.
Topik: bilingual children; early syntax; Estonian
Fulltext: International Journal of Bilingualism 1999 3 267-299.pdf (443.95KB)

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Recent work on the transition into grammar in children acquiring English has pointed up the role of rote-learned “positional patterns,” arguing that both nativist approaches based on Universal Grammar and constructivist approaches assuming semantic underpinnings are unnecessary or inadequate to account for the data. A close analysis of the first four months of word combinations recorded for an Estonian-English learning child suggests that meaning-based generativity must play a role in this important transition, in that mixed language utterances, sequence reversals and errors revealing early attempts at analysis provide clear evidence that distributional learning alone cannot provide a sufficient characterization of the origins of grammatical development. It is proposed, instead, that relational word use in the single word period may have provided “model learning” for syntax in a child with bilingual input and a relatively late start on word combinations.

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