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Psycholinguistics: a cross-language perspective.

E Bates1, A Devescovi, B Wulfeck

  • 1Center For Research in Language, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA. bates@crl.ucsd.edu

Annual Review of Psychology
|January 10, 2001
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Cross-linguistic research reveals universal language principles by comparing acquisition, use, and breakdown across diverse languages. Differences highlight a cost-benefit trade-off in cognitive mechanisms underlying language processing.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Comparative Linguistics
  • Developmental Psychology

Background:

  • Cross-linguistic studies are crucial for understanding universal aspects of language.
  • Language development, use, and breakdown show variations across different languages.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review comparative studies in language development, use, and breakdown.
  • To identify universal processes and differences across languages.

Main Methods:

  • Review of comparative cross-linguistic studies.
  • Analysis of language acquisition order in children.
  • Examination of language structure sparing/impairment in aphasia.
  • Investigation of real-time processing in adults.

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Main Results:

  • Significant cross-linguistic differences exist in structural acquisition by children.
  • Language structures are differentially spared or impaired in aphasic patients across languages.
  • Adults rely on specific structures differently during real-time processing.

Conclusions:

  • Observed differences reflect a cost-benefit trade-off in universal cognitive mechanisms.
  • These mechanisms (perception, attention, memory, motor planning) are critical for language but not exclusive to it.