Spoken word production in early language development

早期语言发展中的口语产生

• 批准号: RGPIN-2014-05690
• 负责人: Zamuner, Tania
• 金额: $ 1.89万
• 依托单位: University of Ottawa
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=669554
• 关键词: Spoken; word; production; early; language

A wonderful milestone in children's development is the day they produce their first word. This usually occurs around children's first birthday. The emergence of spoken word production is even more amazing when we consider the fact that young children are not born with the ability to talk. Within the first 12 months of their lives, they go from having primarily comprehension-based knowledge and transition to a remarkable point in development when they begin to speak. In this short period of time, they have begun to unify their language comprehension and production abilities. This research tackles a fundamental and basic issue of language development: the cognitive processes of spoken word production in children. Central challenges to the learner are to develop mental representations of language, organize these representations, and integrate new representations into existing ones. Empirical studies of developmental speech production can help us understand how learners accomplish these fundamental tasks. This research will use on-line methods, measuring the time it takes to produce a word and tracking children's eye movements to images as they produce a word. The questions addressed in this research have implications for how we conceive of early language development. These findings will be of interest not only to researchers in cognitive and language sciences, but also to health practitioners interested in tools for clinical assessment and therapy.

儿童发展中的一个奇妙的里程碑是他们产生第一个词的那一天。这通常发生在儿童的第一个生日周围。当我们考虑到幼儿没有说话能力的事实时，口语生产的出现就更加惊人。在他们生命的前12个月内，他们从主要的基于理解的知识和过渡到开始讲话时的出色发展点。在短时间内，他们开始统一自己的语言理解和生产能力。这项研究解决了语言发展的基本和基本问题：儿童口语生产的认知过程。对学习者面临的核心挑战是开发语言的心理表征，组织这些表示形式，并将新表示形式纳入现有表述。对发展语音生产的实证研究可以帮助我们了解学习者如何完成这些基本任务。这项研究将使用在线方法，衡量产生单词所需的时间，并在孩子产生一个单词时跟踪孩子的眼睛动作。这项研究中解决的问题对我们如何想象早期语言发展具有影响。这些发现不仅对认知和语言科学的研究人员都感兴趣，而且对对临床评估和治疗工具感兴趣的卫生从业人员也会感兴趣。