Contingencies between verbs, body parts, and argument structures in maternal and child speech: a corpus study
| Autor: | Mounir Maouene, Sango Otieno, Nitya Sethuraman, Josita Maouene |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Linguistics and Language
Head (linguistics) 05 social sciences CHILDES BATES Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Verb 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Embodied cognition 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Body region Argument (linguistics) Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Meaning (linguistics) |
| Zdroj: | Language and Cognition. 8:237-282 |
| ISSN: | 1866-9859 1866-9808 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/langcog.2014.48 |
| Popis: | Prior work on argument structure development has shown connections between abstract verb meaning and argument structure; neuroimaging and behavioral studies have shown connections between verb meaning and body effectors. Here we examine the contingencies between verbs, their most likely body region pairing, and argument structure. We ask whether the verbs used in six common syntactic frames are specifically linked to one of three main regions of the body:head, arm, leg.The speech of 20-month-olds (N= 67), 28-month-olds (N= 27), and their mothers (N= 54) (CHILDES: MacWhinney, 2000) was examined for the use of early-learned verbs (MCDI: Fenson, Dale, Reznick, Bates, Thal, & Pethick, 1994). In total, 89 verb types in 3321 utterances were coded for their associations with thehead, arm, andlegbody regions (associations taken from Maouene, Hidaka, & Smith, 2008). Significant non-random relations are found both overall and for each age group in analyses using multiple chi-square tests of independence and goodness-of-fit. These results are discussed in terms of their relevance for both argument structure development and embodied cognition, as evidence supporting a developmental path that has not been previously examined, in which the infant can use early and concrete perception-action information to learn later abstract syntactic achievements. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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