The beginning of morphological learning: Evidence from verb morpheme processing in preverbal infants

Alexandra Marquis; Rushen Shi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10112-5_13

The beginning of morphological learning: Evidence from verb morpheme processing in preverbal infants

Alexandra Marquis, Rushen Shi

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The goals of our chapter are to study infants’ acquisition of verb morphology and develop a model of early morphological learning. We approach this acquisition by studying French–learning infants’ initial segmentation of verb forms and their interpretation of verb morphological alternations. Our empirical findings demonstrate that infants begin to parse verbs into decomposed stems and suffixes by 11 months of age, and they have rudimentary knowledge of regular verb paradigms by 14 months of age. We show that this learning is based on distributional analyses of the input without the need for semantics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	281-297
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319101125
ISBN (Print)	9783319101118
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10112-5_13
Publication status	Published - Jan 1 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Bootstrapping
Cognitive development
French
Function words/morpheme
Infant speech processing
Language acquisition
Morphological learning
Verb morphology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Psychology
General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences

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