General and Specific Effects of Lexicon in Grammar: Determiner and Object Pronoun Omissions in Child Spanish.
Purpose: This study explores the hypothesis that vocabulary growth can have 2 types of effects in morphosyntactic development. One is a general effect, where vocabulary growth globally determines utterance complexity, defined in terms of sentence length and rates of subordination. There are also spe...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 313 - 328 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=74184862&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 74184862 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2012 vid: 55 iid: 2 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 74184862 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0004) ppf: 313 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 193KB tig: atl: General and Specific Effects of Lexicon in Grammar: Determiner and Object Pronoun Omissions in Child Spanish. aug: au: Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa Castilla-Earls, Anny Patricia Brunnera, Jerry affil: University of Toronto, Canada su: Colombia Comparative grammar Language acquisition Storytelling Vocabulary Auditory perception testing Chi-squared test Experimental design Speech evaluation Structural equation modeling Data analysis software Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Comparative grammar Language acquisition Storytelling Vocabulary Colombia Auditory perception testing Chi-squared test Experimental design Speech evaluation Structural equation modeling Data analysis software Descriptive statistics keyword: clitic pronouns determiners lexicon Spanish syntax clitic pronouns determiners lexicon Spanish syntax ab: Purpose: This study explores the hypothesis that vocabulary growth can have 2 types of effects in morphosyntactic development. One is a general effect, where vocabulary growth globally determines utterance complexity, defined in terms of sentence length and rates of subordination. There are also specific effects, where vocabulary size has a selective impact on the acquisition of grammatical markers and where lexicon is a prerequisite for typological convergence. The study compares the differential effects of vocabulary in 2 measures of morphosyntactic development: omissions of object clitic pronouns and definite articles. Method: Correlation analysis and structural equation models were used to analyze the statistical effects of measures of vocabulary and grammatical development in 110 Spanish-speaking monolingual children ages 3-5 years. Results: The data revealed general effects of vocabulary growth on utterance length and subordination rates and on the use of definite determiners and object pronouns. Specific effects of vocabulary growth were identified for object pronouns but not for determiners. Conclusions: The study found support for a 2-dimensional model separating lexicon and syntax and for 2 types of relationships. Vocabulary development generally determines sentence complexity and further evidence for specific effects in object pronoun use. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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