LING 355 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Syntactic Bootstrapping, Bootstrapping (Linguistics), Carol Chomsky
25 Nov 2016
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Carol chomsky (1969): blindfolded doll that is easy to see or hard to see. Aitchison, j. (1985): biological basis of language acquisition. Eimas et al. (1971): english infants discriminate between [p] and [b] Trehub (1976): english and french canadian infants discriminate between czech sounds. Werker and tees (1984): english, salish and hindi infants perceive contrasts. Mehler et al. (1988): 4 day old infants know native language (french vs. russian) Saffran et al. (1996): infants respond more to part-words or non-words. Christophe et al. (1994): 4 day olds sensitive to sequences +/ boundary (mati vs. ma#ti) Jakobson (1968): children build up feature distinctions drawn from a universal hierarchy. Brown and matthews (1997): emergence of phonemic featural contrasts (/p/ /k/ contrast) Nelson (1973): first 50 words produced referential vs. expressive children. Markman & wachtel (1988): whole object bias, mutual exclusivity bias. Hirsh pasek et al. (1996): cookie monster example (transitive and intransitive verbs) Naigles (1990): more than one action and syntactic bootstrapping.
