How children develop their ability to combine words : a network-based approach
Barceló-Coblijn, Lluís (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Irurtzun, Aritz (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (França))
Real Puigdollers, Cristina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
López Navarro, Emilio (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Gomila, Antoni (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

Data:	2019
Resum:	A new way to study and represent early syntactic development is introduced that offers a promising avenue to improve on standard cumulative approaches to language learning. The analysis is inspired by complex network theory and explores an important issue in psycholinguistics: how children combine words syntactically. To this end, the article exploits the longitudinal data of multiple individual studies stored and publicly available in the CHILDES database. This analysis proves useful in two regards: in coincidence with previous approaches to syntactic development, it reveals a similar linear-nonlinear pattern of syntactic development (a combination of linear periods interrupted by abrupt transitions) in typical children regardless the language they are acquiring. It also provides a straightforward objective measure of syntactic impairment in atypically developing children. A striking difference between typical and atypical children lies in the connectivity of functional words, which suddenly become hubs but only in typical development. Our technique offers a formal measure of impairment with respect to typical syntactic development, which goes beyond the standard notion of retardation in development, for the Down syndrome condition.
Ajuts:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FFI2017-87140-C4-1-P Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PSI2014-62092-EXP Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN2016-80347-R Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PGC2018-096870-B-100
Nota:	Altres ajuts: IT769-13
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Language acquisition ; Analysis of corpora ; Complex networks ; Syntax ; Down syndrome
Publicat a:	Adaptive behavior, Vol. 27, núm. 5 (january 2019) , p. 307-330, ISSN 1741-2633

DOI: 10.1177/1059712319847993

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