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View article: Syntactic bootstrapping as a mechanism for language learning
Syntactic bootstrapping as a mechanism for language learning Open
View article: There might be more to syntactic bootstrapping than being pragmatic: A look at grammatical person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech
There might be more to syntactic bootstrapping than being pragmatic: A look at grammatical person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech Open
In ‘Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping’, Hacquard (2022) argues that abstract syntax is useful for word learning, but that an additional cue, pragmatics, is both necessary and available for young children during the first steps …
View article: ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time
ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time Open
Much of our basic understanding of cognitive and social processes in infancy relies on measures of looking time, and specifically on infants’ visual preference for a novel or familiar stimulus. However, despite being the foundation of many…
View article: ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time
ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time Open
Much of our basic understanding of cognitive and social processes in infancy relies on measures of looking time, and specifically on infants’ visual preference for a novel or familiar stimulus. However, despite being the foundation of many…
View article: Rapid infant learning of syntactic–semantic links
Rapid infant learning of syntactic–semantic links Open
In the second year of life, infants begin to rapidly acquire the lexicon of their native language. A key learning mechanism underlying this acceleration is syntactic bootstrapping: the use of hidden cues in grammar to facilitate vocabulary…
View article: Learning to predict and predicting to learn: Before and beyond the syntactic bootstrapper
Learning to predict and predicting to learn: Before and beyond the syntactic bootstrapper Open
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View article: Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to grammatical dependencies
Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to grammatical dependencies Open
During their first months of life, infants can already distinguish function words (e.g., pronouns and determiners) from content words (e.g., verbs and nouns). Little research has explored preverbal infants' sensitivity to the relationships…
View article: Learning to predict and predicting to learn: Before and beyond the syntactic bootstrapper
Learning to predict and predicting to learn: Before and beyond the syntactic bootstrapper Open
Young children can exploit the syntactic context of a novel word to narrow down itsprobable meaning. This is syntactic bootstrapping. A learner that uses syntacticbootstrapping to foster lexical acquisition must first have identified the s…
View article: Syntactic Prediction Adaptation Accounts for Language Processing and Language Learning
Syntactic Prediction Adaptation Accounts for Language Processing and Language Learning Open
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 mec…
View article: Syntactic prediction adaptation accounts for language processing and language learning
Syntactic prediction adaptation accounts for language processing and language learning Open
Previous literature has shown that children use recent input to adapt their syntactic predictions, and use these adapted predictions to infer the meaning of novel words. The current study tested whether they could use this mechanism to dis…
View article: COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains.
COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains. Open
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period of increased time at home with caregivers, with limited access to external sources…
View article: COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains.
COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains. Open
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period of increased time at home with caregivers, with limited access to external sources…
View article: “The tiger is hitting! the duck too!” 3-year-olds can use prosodic information to constrain their interpretation of ellipsis
“The tiger is hitting! the duck too!” 3-year-olds can use prosodic information to constrain their interpretation of ellipsis Open
View article: 18‐month‐olds fail to use recent experience to infer the syntactic category of novel words
18‐month‐olds fail to use recent experience to infer the syntactic category of novel words Open
Infants are able to use the contexts in which familiar words appear to guide their inferences about the syntactic category of novel words (e.g. ‘This is a’ + ‘dax’ ‐> dax = object). The current study examined whether 18‐month‐old infants c…
View article: 14‐month‐olds exploit verbs’ syntactic contexts to build expectations about novel words
14‐month‐olds exploit verbs’ syntactic contexts to build expectations about novel words Open
During their second year of life, infants develop a rudimentary understanding of grammatical categories based on their knowledge and use of frequent function words. The current study inquired whether, at only 14 months of age, infants can …
View article: Familiar words can serve as a semantic seed for syntactic bootstrapping
Familiar words can serve as a semantic seed for syntactic bootstrapping Open
Young children can exploit the syntactic context of a novel word to narrow down its probable meaning. But how do they learn which contexts are linked to which semantic features in the first place? We investigate if 3‐ to 4‐year‐old childre…
View article: 18-month-olds fail to use recent experience to infer the syntactic category of novel words
18-month-olds fail to use recent experience to infer the syntactic category of novel words Open
Infants are able to use the contexts in which familiar words appear to guide their inferences about the syntactic category of novel words (e.g., “This is a” + “dax” -> dax = object). The current study examined whether 18-month-old infan…
View article: Studying the Real-Time Interpretation of Novel Noun and Verb Meanings in Young Children
Studying the Real-Time Interpretation of Novel Noun and Verb Meanings in Young Children Open
Decades of research show that children rely on the linguistic context in which novel words occur to infer their meanings. However, because learning in these studies was assessed after children had heard numerous occurrences of a novel word…
View article: Can infants learn new function words using the semantic seed?
Can infants learn new function words using the semantic seed? Open
Young children can exploit the syntactic contexts in which they hear a novel word to narrow down its probable meaning. But how do children learn which syntactic contexts (e.g. instantiated by pronouns or articles) are linked to which seman…
View article: Categorization with semantic seed
Categorization with semantic seed Open
During their second year of life, infants develop a rudimentary understanding of grammatical categories based on their knowledge and use of frequent function words. The current study inquired whether, at only 14 months of age, infants can …
View article: Contextual factors in lexical processing: the case of French Liaison
Contextual factors in lexical processing: the case of French Liaison Open
Lower-level and higher-level processes during lexical recognition were investigated using ambiguous pseudo-noun cases related to liaisons in French. In phrases such as un onche and un nonche, the misalignment in the former li…