Language-general and language-specific phenomena in the acquisition of inflectional noun morphology: A cross-linguistic elicited-production study of Polish, Finnish and Estonian

Granlund, Sonia; Kołak, Joanna; Vihman, Virve‐Anneli; Engelmann, Felix; Lieven, Elena; Pine, Julián M.; Theakston, Anna L.; Ambridge, Ben

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2019.04.004

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“…We should therefore not be surprised to learn that studies of both verb and noun morphology (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015; Dąbrowska, 2004, 2008; Dąbrowska & Szczerbinski, 2006; Engelmann et al, 2019; Granlund et al, 2019; Kirjavainen, Nikolaev, & Kidd, 2012; Kjærbæk, dePont Christensen, & Basbøll, 2014; Krajewski, Theakston, Lieven, & Tomasello, 2011; Kunnari et al, 2011; Leonard, Caselli, & Devescovi, 2002; Maratsos, 2000; Maslen et al, 2004; Räsänen et al, 2016; Rubino & Pine, 1998; Saviciute, Ambridge, & Pine, 2018) yield three findings that constitute evidence for an exemplar (or connectionist) account. The first is an effect of phonological neighbourhood density: the greater the number of phonological ‘friends’ or ‘neighbours’ – forms that are phonologically similar to the target and that take the same inflectional ending – the greater the rate at which children produce the target form correctly, and the lower the error rate.…”

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Against stored abstractions: A radical exemplar model of language acquisition

Ambridge

2019

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The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly analogy across multiple stored exemplars, weighted by their degree of similarity to the target with regard to the task at hand. Across the domains of (1) word meanings, (2) morphologically inflected words, (3) n-grams, (4) sentence-level constructions and (5) phonetics and phonology, accounts based on independently-represented abstractions (whether formal rules or prototype categories) fail for two reasons. First, it is not possible to posit abstractions that delineate possible and impossible form; e.g. that (1) rule in pool tables and data tables, but rule out chairs, (2) rule in the past-tense forms netted and bet but rule out * setted and * jet, (3) rule in the bigram f+t but rule out (probabilistically) v+t, (4) rule in both John feared Bill and John frightened Bill but rule out * John laughed Bill, (5) rule in Speaker A but rule out Speaker B as the person who produced a particular word (e.g. Sa’urday). Second, for each domain, empirical data provide evidence of exemplar storage that cannot be captured by putative abstractions: e.g. speakers prefer and/or show an advantage for (1) exemplar variation even within word-meaning ‘category boundaries’, (2) novel inflected forms that are similar to existing exemplars, (3) n-grams that have occurred frequently in the input, (4) SVO sentences with he as SUBJECT and it as OBJECT and (5) repeated productions of ‘the same’ word that are phonologically similar or, better still, identical. An exemplar account avoids an intractable lumping-or-splitting dilemma facing abstraction-based accounts and provides a unitary explanation of language acquisition across all domains; one that is consistent with models and empirical findings from the computational modelling and neuroimaging literature.

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Against stored abstractions: A radical exemplar model of language acquisition

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2019

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“…Existing studies of PND effects in young children concentrated mostly on the influence of PND on vocabulary development, word and pseudoword learning in noisy and no-noise conditions or on morphology acquisition in different languages rather than on the influence of a word's phonological neighbors on its production and recognition in terms of facilitation or inhibition (e.g., Dąbrowska & Szczerbiński, 2006; Han, Storkel & Bontempo, 2019; Hoover, Storkel & Hogan, 2010; van der Kleij, Rispens & Scheper, 2016; Granlund, Kolak, Vihman, Engelmann, Lieven, Pine, Theakston & Ambridge, 2019). For example, Savičiūtė, Ambridge and Pine (2018) studied how 4;0- to 5;5-year-old children acquired the Lithuanian inflectional noun morphology.…”

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“…Also, the significant PND influence on the verbal past tense morphology acquisition was observed in Finnish, Icelandic, and Norwegian young children (Kirjavainen, Nikolaev & Kidd, 2012; Ragnarsdóttir, Simonsen & Plunkett, 1999). In a large-scale, elicited-production study of noun case marking in Polish, Finnish, and Estonian, Granlund et al , (2019) found that children produced noun forms more accurately for words with larger PND class in all three languages.…”

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“…Russian studies on nominal case inflection acquisition showed that it is mostly acquired by the age of 4 (Babyonyshev, 1993; Gagarina & Voeikova, 2009), which could mean that by the age of 4 Russian children should manifest similar effects to adults of PND on word production and recognition. However, see, e.g., preliminary experimental results for Russian (Ladinskaya, Chrabaszcz & Lopukhina, 2019) and experimental evidence for the other languages with a rich inflectional morphology (Dąbrowska & Szczerbiński, 2006; Granlund et al , 2019) which indicate that the acquisition of the case system may take longer.…”

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The effects of phonological neighborhood density in childhood word production and recognition in Russian are opposite to English

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Lopukhina

2020

J. Child Lang.

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This study investigates how phonological neighborhood density (PND) affects word production and recognition in 4-to-6-year-old Russian children in comparison to adults. Previous experiments with English-speaking adults showed that a dense neighborhood facilitated word production but inhibited recognition whereas a sparse neighborhood inhibited production but facilitated recognition. Importantly, these effects are not universal because a reverse PND pattern was found in Spanish-speaking adults. Probably, PND effects depend on the morphological properties of language. This study focuses on PND effects in word production and recognition in terms of facilitation and inhibition in Russian. Our results are consistent with those in Spanish: Russian-speaking adults produced words with dense neighborhoods more slowly and recognized them faster than words with sparse neighborhoods. Russian children showed the same PND effect in recognition and no effect was found in production. The findings support the hypothesis that PND effects in word production and recognition are influenced by the morphological system of language.

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“…As many as 11 regional languages in Indonesia were declared extinctin 2018. Besides, four regional languages weredeclared critical and two regional languages were setbacks [1]. The extinct language comes from Maluku, namely the languages of the Kajeli/Kayeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua and Nila, and Papuan languages, namely Tandia and Mawes.…”

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Early Literacy Value on Kakawihan

Opik¹,

Rahman²,

Sunendar³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Local Wisdom, INCOLWIS 2019, August 29-30, 2019, Padang,

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Sundanese culture in the care of children is known as kakawihan. Realized or not, a kakawihan which is sung by parents when caring for children is the process of introducing early literacy, especially related to literacy in the scope of Sundanese culture and language. As time goes by, the flow of globalization that infiltrated every part of life in Indonesian society slowly eroded the culture of each ethnicity, including the culture of the Sundanese people, one of which was kakawihan which was used to nurture children. In this case, the researcher conducted a study aimed at obtaining a comprehensive picture of the value of early literacy in kakawihan which is used to care for children. This study uses the content analysis method. The research techniques used are in the form of document studies, observations, and interviews. Based on the results of the study, it was found that kakawihan used to care for children contained early literacy values within the scope of Sundanese language and culture. Kakawihan is used in caring for children, besides being used by the closest people, it is also done with compassion to foster phonological awareness, knowledge of letters, and children's vocabulary in Sundanese.

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Language-general and language-specific phenomena in the acquisition of inflectional noun morphology: A cross-linguistic elicited-production study of Polish, Finnish and Estonian

Cited by 54 publications

References 72 publications

Against stored abstractions: A radical exemplar model of language acquisition

Against stored abstractions: A radical exemplar model of language acquisition

The effects of phonological neighborhood density in childhood word production and recognition in Russian are opposite to English

Early Literacy Value on Kakawihan

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