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Prosodic Constraints on Children’s Perception and Production of Inflectional Morphemes| old_uid | 12850 |
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| title | Prosodic Constraints on Children’s Perception and Production of Inflectional Morphemes |
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| start_date | 2013/10/08 |
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| schedule | 16h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Children’ production of grammatical morphemes is highly variable. It is generally thought to be due to poor syntactic or semantic representations. However, recent acquisition research shows that much of this variability may be conditioned. Thus, children will be more likely to produce and perceive grammatical morphemes in simple, prosodically more salient contexts than where the acoustics of the morpheme are reduced. This suggests that some of the variability in children’s perception and production of grammatical morphemes may be due to prosodic context effects, and that some aspects of children’s syntactic/semantic representations may be in place earlier than often assumed. This raises important methodological issues for investigating syntactic knowledge in L1 acquisition, but also in bilinguals, L2 children and adults, and those with language impairment. The implications for understanding the nature of developing linguistic representations and the mechanisms underlying language processing and production are discussed. |
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| responsibles | Rämä, Izard |
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