The Processing Cost of Reference Set Computation: Acquisition of Stress Shift and Focus

Autor/inn/en	Armon-Lotem, Sharon; Crain, Stephen; Varlokosta, Spyridoula
Titel	The Processing Cost of Reference Set Computation: Acquisition of Stress Shift and Focus
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition, 12 (2004) 3, S.171-217 (47 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1207/s15327817la1203&4_2
Schlagwörter	Semantics; Syntax; Language Acquisition; Grammar; Young Children; Adults; Cognitive Mapping; Linguistic Input; Language Processing; Language Universals + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Semantik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Grammatik; Frühe Kindheit; Sprachbildung; Sprachverarbeitung
Abstract	This article is concerned with the correspondence conditions that hold between certain semantic relations--including part-whole relations, possession, location, and the semantic features [+- animate] or [+- count]--and certain syntactic structures including genitives and relative clauses. The objective is to determine the extent to which these correspondence conditions derive from Universal Grammar or are "learned" by children in response to input from caretakers and others. Interface conditions imposed by Universal Grammar (UG) are expected to appear early in the course of language development despite the vagaries of the primary linguistic data. In this article, we show that children as young as 3 years old adhere to specific semantic distinctions and to specific constraints on the mapping of these distinctions onto syntactic structures. Moreover, the children show more stringent adherence to interface conditions than adult speakers of the same languages do, indicating that children's mapping relations between syntax and semantics are not based on their experience but rather are projected from UG. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10