CIIPME   05517
CENTRO INTERDISCIPLINARIO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN PSICOLOGIA MATEMATICA Y EXPERIMENTAL DR. HORACIO J.A RIMOLDI
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Towards investigating verb learnability properties in the input of socio- economically diverse children
Autor/es:
CRISTIA, ALEJANDRINA; AUDISIO, CYNTHIA PAMELA
Lugar:
Lyon
Reunión:
Congreso; Fourteenth International Association for the Study of Child Language; 2017
Institución organizadora:
Dynamics of Language Laboratory at Lyon University Light 2
Resumen:
A number of input features predict the learnability of different words (including predicates; Braginsky et al., 2016): All else equal, verbs occurring in shorter utterances are acquired earlier. Yet utterance length varies as a function of socio-economic status (Huttenlocher et al., 2002), and likely also depending on a verb?s argument structure. We investigated the length of utterances for different types of verbs in speech to socio-economically diverse children. Argentinean infants (N = 10 whose parents had > 16 years education; N= 10 whose parents had