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Noun Imageability Facilitates the Acquisition of Plurals: Survival Analysis of Plural Emergence in Children

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    SYSNO ASEP0433866
    Druh ASEPJ - Článek v odborném periodiku
    Zařazení RIVJ - Článek v odborném periodiku
    Poddruh JČlánek ve WOS
    NázevNoun Imageability Facilitates the Acquisition of Plurals: Survival Analysis of Plural Emergence in Children
    Tvůrce(i) Smolík, Filip (PSU-E) RID, ORCID, SAI
    Celkový počet autorů1
    Zdroj.dok.Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. - : Springer - ISSN 0090-6905
    Roč. 43, č. 4 (2014), s. 335-350
    Poč.str.16 s.
    Forma vydáníTištěná - P
    Jazyk dok.eng - angličtina
    Země vyd.US - Spojené státy americké
    Klíč. slovaLanguage acquisition ; Imageability ; Morphology ; Acquisition of inflections ; Semantic generality
    Vědní obor RIVAN - Psychologie
    CEPGAP407/10/2047 GA ČR - Grantová agentura ČR
    Institucionální podporaPSU-E - RVO:68081740
    UT WOS000337287600002
    EID SCOPUS84902343096
    DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-013-9255-5
    AnotaceResearch in child language suggests that semantically general verbs appear in grammatical structures earlier than semantically complex, specific ones. The present study examines whether this was the case in nouns, using imageability as a proxy measure of semantic generality. Longitudinal corpus data from 12 children from CHILDES were used to obtain information on the first occurrence of plurals. A total of 3,560 uninflected nouns were identified in the corpora, of which 1,202 were observed in the plural. Survival analyses indicated that the chance of observing a plural form increases with the imageability rating of the noun, even after accounting for the age of acquisition of the uninflected noun, maternal input frequency, and word length. Noun imageability thus facilitates the acquisition of plural forms. This finding contradicts the observations from verbs, and indicates that the acquisition of grammar is facilitated by high imageability rather than semantic generality.
    PracovištěPsychologický ústav
    KontaktŠtěpánka Halamová, Halamova@praha.psu.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 222 096
    Rok sběru2015
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