What Does Syntax Say about Space? 2-Year-Olds Use Sentence Structure to Learn New Prepositions

Autor/inn/en	Fisher, Cynthia; Klingler, Stacy L.; Song, Hyun-joo
Titel	What Does Syntax Say about Space? 2-Year-Olds Use Sentence Structure to Learn New Prepositions
Quelle	In: Cognition, 101 (2006) 1, (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2005.10.002
Schlagwörter	Sentence Structure; Form Classes (Languages); Toddlers; Language Acquisition; Cognitive Processes; Semantics; Nouns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Analytischer Sprachbau; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Semantik
Abstract	Children as young as two use sentence structure to learn the meanings of verbs. We probed the generality of sensitivity to sentence structure by moving to a different semantic and syntactic domain, spatial prepositions. Twenty-six-month-olds used sentence structure to determine whether a new word was an object-category name ("This is a corp!") or a spatial-relational term ("This is acorp my box!"). We argue that children rely on the intimate relationship between nouns in sentences and semantic arguments of predicate terms: Noting that a new word takes noun arguments identifies the new word as a predicate term, and directs the child's attention to relations among its arguments. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10