Affiliation:
1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Abstract
All theories of language development assume that young children must have some means of identifying the relevant units of the language they hear without explicit instruction from adults. Even if children are born fully equipped to handle abstract units such as phrases and verbs, they need some means of identifying which pieces of the speech stream are examples of these units, because such units are not structured in the same way across languages. In this paper, we discuss two solutions to this problem that children might employ, commonly referred to as "prosodic bootstrapping" and "syntactic bootstrapping." Following a discussion of these processes, their implications for language intervention are considered.
Publisher
American Speech Language Hearing Association
Subject
Speech and Hearing,Linguistics and Language,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Otorhinolaryngology
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