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Signal to Syntax - Bootstrapping From Speech To Grammar in Early Acquisition (Paperback)
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Signal to Syntax - Bootstrapping From Speech To Grammar in Early Acquisition (Paperback)
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In the beginning, before there are words, or syntax, or discourse,
there is speech. Speech is an infant's gateway to language. Without
exposure to speech, no language--or at most only a feeble facsimile
of language--develops, regardless of how rich a child's biological
endowment for language learning may be. But little is given
directly in speech--not words, for example, as anyone who has ever
listened to fluent conversation in an unfamiliar language can
attest. Rather, words and phrases, or rudimentary categories--or
whatever other information is required for syntactic and semantic
analyses to begin operating--must be pulled from speech through an
infant's developing perceptual capacities. By the end of the first
year, an infant can segment at least some words from fluent speech.
Beyond this, how impoverished or rich an infant's representations
of input may be remains largely unknown. Clearly, in the debate
over determinants of early language acquisition, the input speech
stream has too often been offhandedly dismissed as a potential
source of information.
This volume brings together internationally-known scholars from a
range of disciplines--linguistics, psychology, cognitive and
computer science, and acoustics --who share common interests in how
speech, in its phonological, prosodic, distributional, and
statistical properties, may encode information useful for early
language learning, and how such information may be deciphered by
very young children. These scholars offer a spectrum of viewpoints
on the possibility that aspects of speech may provide bootstraps
for language learning; contribute important, state-of-the-art
findings across a variety of relevant domains; and illuminate
critical directions for future inquiry. The publication of this
volume represents a significant step in renewing the bonds between
two fields that have long been sundered--speech perception and
language acquisition.
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