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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.
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.
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