Lexical segmentation and vocabulary growth in early language acquisition  

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Plunkett, Kim

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 20 no. 1 (Feb. 1993), page 43-60.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/20 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The identification of appropiate lexical segmentations of the speech signal constitutes a problem for the language learner and the child language researcher alike. Articulatory precision and fluency criteria for identifying formulaic expressions, sub-lexical forms and target lexemes in linguistic productions are defined and applied to the analysis of two Danish children's language development between the ages of I;0 and 2;0. The results of this analysis are compared to the results of applying standard distributional and frequency criteria in the tabulation of mean length of utterance and vocabulary profiles for both standard and non-standard lexical segmentations. It is argued that althought the two methods yield converging profiles of development during the latter part of the period studied, articulatory precision and fluency criteria offer a more powerful tool for identifying alternative segmentation strategies in early language acquisition. Profiles of vocabulary development for these two children suggest that solution to the segmentation problem may be an important trigger for their vocabulary spurts.

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