Constraints on Statistical Computations at 10 Months of Age: The Use of Phonological Features

Autor/inn/en	Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli; Nazzi, Thierry
Titel	Constraints on Statistical Computations at 10 Months of Age: The Use of Phonological Features
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 18 (2015) 6, S.864-876 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/desc.12279
Schlagwörter	Infants; Language Acquisition; Phonology; French; Preferences; Articulation (Speech); Experiments; Phonemes; Native Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Fonologie; Französisch; Erprobung; Fonem
Abstract	Recently, several studies have argued that infants capitalize on the statistical properties of natural languages to acquire the linguistic structure of their native language, but the kinds of constraints which apply to statistical computations remain largely unknown. Here we explored French-learning infants' perceptual preference for labial-coronal (LC) words over coronal-labial words (CL) words (e.g. preferring "bat" over "tab") to determine whether this phonotactic preference is based on the acquisition of the statistical properties of the input based on a single phonological feature (i.e. place of articulation), multiple features (i.e. place and manner of articulation), or individual consonant pairs. Results from four experiments revealed that infants had a labial-coronal bias for nasal sequences (Experiment 1) and for all plosive sequences (Experiments 2 and 4) but a coronal-labial bias for all fricative sequences (Experiments 3 and 4), independently of the frequencies of individual consonant pairs. These results establish for the first time that constellations of multiple phonological features, defining broad consonant classes, constrain the early acquisition of phonotactic regularities of the native language. (As Provided).
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