Revisiting evidence for lexicalized word order in young children

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1、Lingua122(2012)92106ContentslistsavailableatSciVerseScienceDirectLinguajournalhomepage:www.elsevier.com/locate/linguaReviewRevisitingevidenceforlexicalizedwordorderinyoungchildrenJulieFranck*,RomyLassottaUniversityofGeneva,SwitzerlandARTICLEINFOABSTRACTArticlehistory:Onemajorcontroversyinthefieldofl

2、anguagedevelopmentconcernsthenatureofReceived8October2011childrensearlygrammaticalknowledge.ThispaperfocusesontheearlyrepresentationofReceivedinrevisedform19November2011wordorder.ItquestionsthevalidityoftheresultsobtainedwiththeWeirdWordOrderAccepted21November2011methodology(Akhtar,1999)inwhichchil

3、drenarepresentedwithungrammaticalsentences.Theseresultshavepreviouslybeenconsideredasmajorevidencefortheconstructivist,Keywords:usage-basedapproachtowordorderdevelopmentaccordingtowhichyoungchildrenLanguagedevelopmentinitiallyencodewordorderasaverb-specificlexicalpropertywhichonlyslowlydevelopsGramm

4、arWordorderintoabstractknowledgeatage3or4(e.g.,Abbot-Smithetal.,2001;Matthewsetal.,2005,Lexicalfrequency2007).ThecriticalreviewpresentedhereaddressesvariousproblemswiththeresultsandUsage-basedframeworktheirinterpretation.Thediscussionquestionstherelationshipbetweentheoryanddataaswellasmethodologica

5、lissuesrelatedtothesmallnumberofobservationsandthediscardingofdatanotmissingatrandom.Itisarguedthatthedatanotonlyfailtosupporttheconstructivistaccount,buttheyactuallybringevidenceforthealternativehypothesisaccordingtowhichchildren,fromearlyon,representwordorderabstractly.ß2011PublishedbyElsevierB.V

6、.Contents1.Introduction.........................................................................................932.Thedebate..........................................................................................933.Fromtheorytodata:criticalissueswithempiricalpredictions.........................

7、.......................944.Theproblemofmissingdata:criticalissueswithdataanalysis................................................965.Fromdatatotheory:criticalissueswithdatainterpretation....................