Verb Argument Structure Acquisition in Young Children: Defining a Role for Discourse

Autor/inn/en	Naigles, Letitia R.; Maltempo, Ashley
Titel	Verb Argument Structure Acquisition in Young Children: Defining a Role for Discourse
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 38 (2011) 3, S.662-674 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000910000334
Schlagwörter	Sentence Structure; Verbs; Role; English; Language Acquisition; Preschool Children; Grammar; Vignettes; Error Correction; Age Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Rollen; English language; Englisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Grammatik; Korrektur; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	Two-, three- and four-year-old English learners enacted sentences that were missing a direct object (e.g. *The zebra brings.). Previous work has indicated that preschoolers faced with such ungrammatical sentences consistently alter the usual meaning of the verb to fit the syntactic frame (enacting "zebra comes"); older children are more likely to repair the syntax to fit the meaning of the verb (enacting "zebra brings something"; Naigles, Gleitman & Gleitman, 1993). We investigated whether young children performed more repairs if an informative context preceded the ungrammatical sentences. Test sentences were preceded by short vignettes that created a relationship between three characters. Children repaired more sentences than had been found previously; however, older preschoolers also repaired significantly more frequently than younger preschoolers. Discourse context thus seems relevant to the acquisition of verb argument structure, but is not the sole source of information. (As Provided).
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