Research on Statistical Mechanisms of Language Acquisition

摘要：

What mechanisms underlie human language acquisition? Relevant evidence indicates that language learners, with infants included, have the ability to employ statistical properties of linguistic input to find language structure, such as sound patterns, vocabulary, and grammar. These abilities appear to be both powerful and constrained, so that a certain number of statistical patterns are more easily mastered and employed than others. Implications for the structure of human languages are to be discussed.

关键词： statistical properties language acquisition mechanisms

作者: HAN Haiyan

作者单位: School of Foreign Languages, University of Jinan, Jinan, Shandong, P.R.China, 250022

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 3rd International Institute of Statistics & Management Engineering Symposium(2010 国际统计与管理工程研讨会 IISMES)

会议地点: 威海

会议语种:英文

页码: 260-265

在线出版日期: 2010-07-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）