The Cues That Children Use in Acquiring Adjectival Phrases and Compound Nouns: Evidence from Bilingual Children  

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Nicoladis, Elena

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 81 no. 1-3 (2002), page 635-648.
Topik: adjectival phrases; compounds; novel words; language acquisition; bilingual acquisition
Fulltext: 81_01-03_Nicoladis.pdf (79.57KB)

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This study explores the cues used in acquisition of two semantically similar structures that are ordered differently in French and English: adjectival phrases and compound nouns. One possible prediction is that children attend primarily to meaning, so they should order both structures similarly. Another is that children attend primarily to structure, so they should learn these structures independently. Two kinds of data were obtained from eight 4-year old bilinguals: (1) spontaneous production and (2) experimental elicitation. The children were nearly perfect in their ordering of adjectival phrases, but less so in compounds. These results conform to neither prediction, leaving open the question of which cues children use in acquisition.

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