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ERIC Number: EJ679106
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0277
What Infants Know about Syntax but Couldn't Have Learned: Experimental Evidence for Syntactic Structure at 18 Months.
Lidz, Jeffrey; Waxman, Sandra; Freedman, Jennifer
Cognition, v89 n3 pB65-B73 Oct 2003
Examined parental speech data demonstrating that linguistic input to children does not contain sufficient information to support unaided learning of the pronoun "one." Examined 18-month-olds' interpretation of sentences with a "one" substitution. Found that 18-month-olds have command of the syntax of "one." Because syntactic knowledge could not have been gleaned exclusively from input, infants' mastery constitutes evidence for the contribution of innate structure in acquiring a grammar. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Experiments, Infants, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Input, Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Theories, Toddlers
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Universal Grammar