Statistical Learning in Emerging Lexicons: The Case of Danish.
Purpose: This research explored the impact of neighborhood density (ND), word frequency (WF), and word length (WL) on the vocabulary size of Danish-speaking children. Given the particular phonological properties of Danish, the impact was expected to differ from that reported in studies on English an...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 55; no. 5; pp. 1265 - 1274 |
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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=82115510&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 82115510 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: Oct2012 vid: 55 iid: 5 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 82115510 10.1044/1092-4388(2012/10-0291) ppf: 1265 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 236KB tig: atl: Statistical Learning in Emerging Lexicons: The Case of Danish. aug: au: Stokes, Stephanie F. Bleses, Dorthe Basbøll, Hans Lambertsen, Claus Oetting, Janna Barlow, Jessica affil: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Center for Child Language, University of Southern Denmark, Odense su: Denmark Language acquisition Learning Phonetics Vocabulary Consonants Research Speech evaluation Statistics T-test (Statistics) Vowels Medical coding Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Language acquisition Learning Phonetics Vocabulary Denmark Consonants Research Speech evaluation Statistics T-test (Statistics) Vowels Medical coding Descriptive statistics keyword: Danish late talkers phonological neighborhood density statistical learning vocabulary development Danish late talkers phonological neighborhood density statistical learning vocabulary development ab: Purpose: This research explored the impact of neighborhood density (ND), word frequency (WF), and word length (WL) on the vocabulary size of Danish-speaking children. Given the particular phonological properties of Danish, the impact was expected to differ from that reported in studies on English and French. Method: The monosyllabic words in the expressive lexicons of 894 Danish-speaking 2-year-old children were coded for ND, WF, and WL. Lexicons were extracted from parent checklists of the words spoken by their children. Results: Regression revealed that ND, WF, WL, and age together predicted 47% of the variance in vocabulary size, with ND, WF, WL, and age uniquely accounting for 39%, 3.2%, 2.2%, and 2.8% of that variance, respectively. Children with small vocabularies had learned words that were denser and more frequent in the ambient language, and those words were shorter than the words of children with larger vocabularies. Conclusion: The 2 main findings were unexpected. The impact of ND for Danish-speaking children was not expected given the phonological properties of the language. The WF results differed from those of English because of the distribution of word classes on the language-relevant parent checklists. The strong role for ND in emerging languages found in other languages was replicated for Danish. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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