Syntactic Prediction Adaptation Accounts for Language Processing and Language Learning

Autor/inn/en	Havron, Naomi; Babineau, Mireille; Fiévet, Anne-Caroline; de Carvalho, Alex; Christophe, Anne
Titel	Syntactic Prediction Adaptation Accounts for Language Processing and Language Learning
Quelle	In: Language Learning, 71 (2021) 4, S.1194-1221 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Havron, Naomi) ORCID (Babineau, Mireille) ORCID (Fiévet, Anne-Caroline) ORCID (de Carvalho, Alex)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333
DOI	10.1111/lang.12466
Schlagwörter	Syntax; Prediction; Linguistic Input; Inferences; Vocabulary Development; Phrase Structure; Verbs; Language Processing; Nouns; French; Language Usage; Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Language Tests; Ambiguity (Semantics); Language Acquisition; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Vorhersage; Sprachbildung; Inference; Inferenz; Wortschatzarbeit; Phrasenstruktur; Sprachverarbeitung; Französisch; Sprachgebrauch; Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Language test; Sprachtest; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Frankreich
Abstract	A previous study has shown that children use recent input to adapt their syntactic predictions and use these adapted predictions to infer the meaning of novel words. In the current study, we investigated whether children could use this mechanism to disambiguate words whose interpretation as a noun or a verb is ambiguous. We tested 2- to 4-year-old French children using the phrase "la petite" followed by a homophone that could be interpreted as either a noun or a verb. We assigned the children to a noun condition or a verb condition. Before the test, those in the noun condition were exposed to sentences where "la petite" predicted nouns, and those in the verb condition to sentences where "la petite" predicted verbs. At testing, 3- to 4-year-olds, but not 2-year-olds, from the verb condition looked at the verb interpretation longer than did the children in the noun condition. This suggests a progression in children's ability to rely on input to adapt their predictions in language comprehension. (As Provided).
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