Atypical Language Development Matters: A Commentary on Ambridge (2020)

Autor/in	Naigles, Letitia R.
Titel	Atypical Language Development Matters: A Commentary on Ambridge (2020)
Quelle	In: First Language, 40 (2020) 5-6, S.621-625 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Naigles, Letitia R.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/0142723720902288
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Language Acquisition; Longitudinal Studies; Grammar; Models; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Semantics; Pragmatics; Criticism; Language Research; Abstract Reasoning; Figurative Language; Generalization; Language Skills; Language Impairments; Syntax + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Grammatik; Analogiemodell; Autismus; Semantik; Pragmalinguistik; Kritik; Sprachforschung; Abstraktes Denken; Denken; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung
Abstract	This commentary critiques Ambridge's radical exemplar model of language acquisition using research from the Longitudinal Study of Early Language, which has tracked the language development of 30+ children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) since 2002. This research has demonstrated that the children's capacity for abstraction at the grammatical level is not reducible to their lexical or pragmatic abilities. Moreover, the children's capacity for generalization at the lexical semantic level is more impaired than their grammatical abstractions. These findings cannot be accounted for by Ambridge's model of stored exemplars and domain-general analogizing. [For Ben Ambridge's "Against Stored Abstractions: A Radical Exemplar Model of Language Acquisition," see EJ1269951.] (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01