随着婴儿的成长,婴儿导向的语言变得不那么多余:对语言学习的影响
Shira Tal1, Eitan Grossman2, Inbal Arnon3
1Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Department of Cognitive Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Cognition
|May 29, 2024
概括
父母与较大的婴儿使用少冗余的语言,表明根据熟练程度调整的语言. 冗余性的这种发育性下降影响了单词和多个单词序列的重复.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 语言学的语言学.
- 信息理论 信息理论
背景情况:
- 婴儿导向性言语 (IDS) 经常被描述为重复性.
- 沟通效率和语言发展理论预测基于交谈对象的年龄而变化的冗余性.
研究的目的:
- 用率来量化婴儿语言的冗余性.
- 调查语音冗余性是否随着年龄的增长而减少,因为感知到交谈对象的熟练程度会增加.
主要方法:
- 利用婴儿发言的两个发育体.
- 应用率,一个信息理论的措施,量化语音冗余.
- 从不同年龄的婴儿的语音样本中比较率.
主要成果:
- 发现,当父母与年龄较大的婴儿相比,与年龄较小的婴儿交谈时,言语冗余性显著下降.
- 观察到减少冗余是由于词汇重复较少和多个单词序列的重复较少.
- 证明了对谈话对象的熟练程度对言语冗余性的影响.
结论:
- 随着婴儿的成熟,父母的语言变得不那么多余,这反映了他们对语言能力的适应.
- 冗余性的减少凸显了单词和更大的序列在早期语言学习中的作用.
- 率为评估婴儿语言冗余性提供了一种全新的,整体的测量方法.
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