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Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learnersEdited by Maya Hickmann †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 22] 2018
► pp. 201–218
Chapter 10New perspectives on input-output dynamics
Example from the emergence of the Noun category
Dominique Bassano | Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage, CNRS & Université Paris 8
Paul van Geert | Department of Psychology, University of Groningen
This study addresses the role of input, i.e., child-directed speech, in child language acquisition. Proposing a dynamic approach of input-output relationships, we examine the development of noun determiners in the spontaneous production data of three monolingual children between one and three years old. Analyses show explosions in determiner use in the three children, although these vary in timing and amplitude. Such explosions are not found in the input, which rather presented striking fluctuations. Dynamic modeling (an extension of the Scaffolding Model) shows corresponding changes over time in child speech and child-directed speech, although the patterns are different across children. This argues for the idea of mutual influences between input and output, congruent with transactional adaptation models.
Keywords: adaptation, child-directed speech, dynamic modeling, early grammatical development, input-output relations, longitudinal data, noun determiners, scaffolding model
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- Determiner use and the emergence of the noun category
- Child-directed speech, child language acquisition and the scaffolding model
- 2.Data and coding
- 3.Initial analyses: Frequencies of the noun constructions in the three corpora
- 4.The mathematical model
- 5.Modeling analyses: Relations between child speech and CDS in the three corpora
- 6.Conclusion
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Published online: 22 February 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.22.11bas
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.22.11bas
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