Syntactic cues to the noun and verb distinction in Mandarin child-directed speech

Prosodic Cues to Noun and Verb Categories in Infant-Directed Mandarin Speech

Mandarin Chinese, a Sino-Tibetan language, has distinct syntactic and morphological structures in comparison to IndoEuropean languages. This study concerns Chinese infants’ initial derivation of grammatical categories. We examined the prosodic properties of nouns and verbs of the maternal input speech. Non-word disyllabic noun-verb homophones were created and embedded in frequent carrier phrase...

Prosodic Cues to Noun and Verb Categories in Infant- Directed Speech

Children Use Different Cues to Guide Noun and Verb Extensions.

Learning new words involves decoding both how a word fits the current situation and how it could be used in new situations. Three studies explore how two types of cues- sentence structure and the availability of multiple instances-- affect children's extensions of nouns and verbs. In each study, 2½-year-olds heard nouns, verbs or no new word while seeing the experimenter use a novel object to p...

the speech act of advice and the introvert/extrovert distinction among iranian efl university students

the aim of this study is to examine the difference between the introverts and extroverts in preferred advice-giving style. furthermore, it explores the difference between l1 (persian) and l2 (english) regarding the giving of advice for the extroverts and introverts separately. it investigates whether an extrovert or introvert gives advice in the same manner in his l1 (persian) and l2 (english) ...

Pronouns Predict Verb Meanings in Child-Directed Speech

Do statistical regularities between pronouns and verbs help children learn verb meanings? This question is addressed by an analysis of child directed speech. The results show that there are statistical regularities in the co-occurrences of pronouns and verbs that could be used to cue verbs that describe physical motion, psychological states, and features such as transitivity. The learnability o...