This study investigates the initial stages of language acquisition by focusing on infant’s ability to identify, abstract and generalize non adjacent dependency (NAD) patterns in linguistic stimuli and also use them in initial word categorization. NAD is defined as the cooccurrence of morphosyntactic and/or phonological markers over one (or more) intervening element. Our thesis is that the identification of NAD relationships is part of initial lexical acquisition. Infants use perceptual and computational abilities in order to (i) recognize the related terms which appears in NAD configuration, and (ii) abstract and generalize these patterns to new stimuli. NAD was chosen as focus of this study since they are highly frequent elemen...
During early language development native phonotactics are acquired in a ‘bottom-up’ fashion, relying...
AbstractDuring early language development native phonotactics are acquired in a ‘bottom-up’ fashion,...
While many studies have shown that toddlers are able to detect syntactic regularities in speech, the...
This study investigates the capacities of abstraction and generalization of linguistic patterns in ...
This thesis investigates the role of prosodic properties of infant directed speech (IDS) for the ac...
This study investigates the categorization process of words that belong to lexical categories N(oun)...
This dissertation, as an experimental study, focuses on the delimitation of adjective category by in...
In order to become proficient native speakers, children have to learn the morpho-syntactic relations...
Children learn their first language simply by listening to the linguistic utterances provided by the...
This study investigates whether Brazilian infants are able to analyze acoustic properties of linguis...
Investigamos a habilidade de bebês de 13 meses adquirindo o português brasileiro na segmentação e ca...
The present study aims at investigating whether thirteen-month-old Brazilian infants are sensitive t...
This work investigates the acknowledgement by children acquiring BP (Brazilian Portuguese) of the ro...
Lexical categories like noun and verb are foundational to language acquisition, but these categories...
Acquiring language requires learning a set of words (i.e. the lexicon) and abstract rules that combi...
During early language development native phonotactics are acquired in a ‘bottom-up’ fashion, relying...
AbstractDuring early language development native phonotactics are acquired in a ‘bottom-up’ fashion,...
While many studies have shown that toddlers are able to detect syntactic regularities in speech, the...
This study investigates the capacities of abstraction and generalization of linguistic patterns in ...
This thesis investigates the role of prosodic properties of infant directed speech (IDS) for the ac...
This study investigates the categorization process of words that belong to lexical categories N(oun)...
This dissertation, as an experimental study, focuses on the delimitation of adjective category by in...
In order to become proficient native speakers, children have to learn the morpho-syntactic relations...
Children learn their first language simply by listening to the linguistic utterances provided by the...
This study investigates whether Brazilian infants are able to analyze acoustic properties of linguis...
Investigamos a habilidade de bebês de 13 meses adquirindo o português brasileiro na segmentação e ca...
The present study aims at investigating whether thirteen-month-old Brazilian infants are sensitive t...
This work investigates the acknowledgement by children acquiring BP (Brazilian Portuguese) of the ro...
Lexical categories like noun and verb are foundational to language acquisition, but these categories...
Acquiring language requires learning a set of words (i.e. the lexicon) and abstract rules that combi...
During early language development native phonotactics are acquired in a ‘bottom-up’ fashion, relying...
AbstractDuring early language development native phonotactics are acquired in a ‘bottom-up’ fashion,...
While many studies have shown that toddlers are able to detect syntactic regularities in speech, the...