Signal to Syntax (eBook, PDF)

Bootstrapping From Speech To Grammar in Early Acquisition
Redaktion: Morgan, James L.; Demuth, Katherine

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Produktbeschreibung

In the beginning, before there are words, or syntax, or discourse, there is speech. Speech is an infant's gateway to language. Without exposure to speech, no language--or at most only a feeble facsimile of language--develops, regardless of how rich a child's biological endowment for language learning may be. But little is given directly in speech--not words, for example, as anyone who has ever listened to fluent conversation in an unfamiliar language can attest. Rather, words and phrases, or rudimentary categories--or whatever other information is required for syntactic and semantic analyses to begin operating--must be pulled from speech through an infant's developing perceptual capacities. By the end of the first year, an infant can segment at least some words from fluent speech. Beyond this, how impoverished or rich an infant's representations of input may be remains largely unknown. Clearly, in the debate over determinants of early language acquisition, the input speech stream has too often been offhandedly dismissed as a potential source of information.

This volume brings together internationally-known scholars from a range of disciplines--linguistics, psychology, cognitive and computer science, and acoustics --who share common interests in how speech, in its phonological, prosodic, distributional, and statistical properties, may encode information useful for early language learning, and how such information may be deciphered by very young children. These scholars offer a spectrum of viewpoints on the possibility that aspects of speech may provide bootstraps for language learning; contribute important, state-of-the-art findings across a variety of relevant domains; and illuminate critical directions for future inquiry. The publication of this volume represents a significant step in renewing the bonds between two fields that have long been sundered--speech perception and language acquisition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317781707
• Artikelnr.: 40344208

Autorenporträt

James L. Morgan, Katherine Demuth

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. J.L. Morgan
K. Demuth
Signal to Syntax: An Overview. Part I: The Nature
Perception
and Representation of Input Speech.P.D. Eimas
The Perception and Representation of Speech by Infants. B.E. Dresher
Introduction to Metrical and Prosodic Phonology. P. Lieberman
Some Biological Constraints on the Analysis of Prosody. P. Price
M. Ostendorf
Combining Linguistic With Statistical Methods in Modeling Prosody. Part II: Speech and the Acquisition of Words.A. Cutler
Prosody and the Word Boundary Problem. J. Mehler
E. Dupoux
T. Nazzi
G. Dahaene-Lambertz
Coping With Linguistic Diversity: The Infant's Viewpoint. R.N. Aslin
J.Z. Woodward
N.P. LaMendola
T.G. Bever
Models of Word Segmentation in Fluent Maternal Speech to Infants. N.B. Ratner
From "Signal to Syntax": But What Is the Nature of the Signal? C.H. Echols
A Role for Stress in Early Speech Segmentation. K. Demuth
The Prosodic Structure of Early Words. Part III: Speech and the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphology & Form Classes.E. Selkirk
The Prosodic Structure of Function Words. A.M. Peters
S. Strömqvist
The Role of Prosody in the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes. L.B. Leonard
J.A. Eyer
Deficits of Grammatical Morphology in Children with Specific Language Impairment and Their Implications for Notions of Bootstrapping. M. Kelly
The Role of Phonology in Grammatical Category Assignments. J.L. Morgan
R. Shi
P. Allopena
Perceptual Bases of Rudimentary Grammatical Categories: Toward a Broader Conceptualization of Bootstrapping. Part IV: Speech and the Acquisition of Phrase Structure.J.J. Venditti
S-A. Jun
M.E. Beckman
Prosodic Cues to Syntactic and Other Linguistic Structures in Japanese
Korean
and English. R. Mazuka
Can a Grammatical Parameter Be Set Before the First Word? Prosodic Contributions to Early Setting of a Grammatical Parameter. M. Steedman
Phrasal Intonation and the Acquisition of Syntax. C. Fisher
H. Tokura
Prosody in Speech to Infants: Direct and Indirect Acoustic Cues to Syntactic Structure. A. Fernald
G. McRoberts
Prosodic Bootstrapping: A Critical Analysis of the Argument and the Evidence. P. Jusczyk
D.G.K. Nelson
Syntactic Units
Prosody
and Psychological Reality During Infancy. Part V: Speech and the Acquisition of Language.L. Gerken
Phonological and Distributional Information in Sytnax Acquisition. J.F. Werker
V.L. Lloyd
J.E. Pegg
L. Polka
Putting the Baby in the Bootstraps: Toward a More Complete Understanding of the Role of the Input in Infant Speech Processing. K. Hirsh-Pasek
M. Tucker
R.M. Golinkoff
Dynamical Systems Theory: Reinterpreting "Prosodic Bootstrapping" and Its Role in Language Acquisition.