How children develop their ability to combine words: a network-based approach
| Autor: | Lluís Barceló-Coblijn, Cristina Real Puigdollers, Aritz Irurtzun, Antoni Gomila, Emilio López-Navarro |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques (IKER), Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
Computer science Down syndrome Analysis of corpora 05 social sciences Complex networks Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Language acquisition Complex network computer.software_genre Syntax 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Artificial intelligence [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics business computer 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Natural language processing |
| Zdroj: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Adaptive Behavior Adaptive Behavior, SAGE Publications, 2019, 27 (5), pp.307--330. ⟨10.1177/1059712319847993⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1741-2633 1059-7123 |
| Popis: | Altres ajuts: IT769-13 A new way to study and represent early syntactic development is introduced that offers a promising avenue to improve on standard cumulative approaches to language learning. The analysis is inspired by complex network theory and explores an important issue in psycholinguistics: how children combine words syntactically. To this end, the article exploits the longitudinal data of multiple individual studies stored and publicly available in the CHILDES database. This analysis proves useful in two regards: in coincidence with previous approaches to syntactic development, it reveals a similar linear-nonlinear pattern of syntactic development (a combination of linear periods interrupted by abrupt transitions) in typical children regardless the language they are acquiring. It also provides a straightforward objective measure of syntactic impairment in atypically developing children. A striking difference between typical and atypical children lies in the connectivity of functional words, which suddenly become hubs but only in typical development. Our technique offers a formal measure of impairment with respect to typical syntactic development, which goes beyond the standard notion of retardation in development, for the Down syndrome condition. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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