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Rethinking the Origins of Cross‐Language Effects: How Heard Verbs Influence Japanese‐ and English‐Speaking Children's Attention to the Details of Actions

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By Hiromichi Hagihara, Monica Barbir, Laboratoire d'informatique, Hanako Yoshida
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction What are the consequences for cognition if a language has just one lexical category for all the possible kinds of snow, or many distinct lexical categories (Whorf 1956)? What are the consequences for perception if a language collapses blue and green into one lexical category or partitions them into two (Davies 1998; Kay and Cook 2023; Roberson et al. 2004; Winawer et al. 2007)?
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Syntactic bootstrapping as a mechanism for language learning

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By Mireille Babineau, Monica Barbir, Alex de Carvalho, Naomi Havron
| hal.science
Article Dans Une Revue Nature Reviews Psychology Année : 2024 Syntactic bootstrapping as a mechanism for language learning Fichier principal Babineau_Barbir_de_Carvalho_Havron_Dautriche_and_Christophe_NatureReviews_Psychology_in_press.pdf (506.31 Ko) Télécharger le fichier Origine Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) hal-04611468 , version 1 (13-06-2024) Mireille Babineau, Monica Barbir, Alex de Carvalho, Naomi Havron, Isabelle Dautriche, et al..
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Syntactic bootstrapping as a mechanism for language learning - Nature Reviews Psychology

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By Mireille Babineau, Alex de Carvalho, Naomi Havron, Monica Barbir
| Nature Verified
Abstract Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain how young children solve the puzzle of mapping spoken words to their meanings. The influential syntactic bootstrapping theory postulates that children learn the meanings of words (particularly verbs) by paying attention to the syntactic structures in which they occur.
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