Examining the role of lexical frequency in the acquisition and processing of sentential complements |
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| Institution: | 1. Max Planck Child Study Centre, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom;2. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, United Kingdom;1. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand;2. Vietnam National University, Viet Nam;3. Kanagawa Dental University, Japan;1. Cognitive Sciences, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;2. Speech and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom;1. Department of Communication Disorders, School of Rehabilitation Science, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, 1757 Kanazawa, Tobetsu-cho, Ishikari-gun, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan;2. Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, N12-W5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0812, Japan;3. Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, N12-W5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0812, Japan;4. Sapporo City General Hospital, Division of Neurology, 1-1, N11-W13, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8604, Japan;5. Hokkaido Neurosurgical Memorial Hospital, Department of Neurology, 1-20, Higashi-5, Hachiken-9, Nishi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 063-0869, Japan;6. Hokkaido Neurosurgical Memorial Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, 1-20, Higashi-5, Hachiken-9, Nishi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 063-0869, Japan;7. Aizen Hospital, Department of Rehabilitation, 2-1-38, Kawazoe-13, Minami-ku, Sapproro, Hokkaido 005-0813, Japan;1. Department of Cardiology, Istanbul Mehmet Akif Ersoy Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey;2. Department of Cardiology, Mugla Sikti Kocman University Medical Faculty, Mugla, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | We present empirical data showing that the relative frequency with which a verb normally appears in a syntactic construction predicts young children's ability to remember and repeat sentences instantiating that construction. Children aged 2;10–5;8 years were asked to repeat grammatical and ungrammatical sentential complement sentences (e.g., ‘I think + S’). The sentences contained complement-taking verbs (CTVs) used with differing frequencies in children's natural speech. All children repeated sentences containing high frequency CTVs (e.g., think) more accurately than those containing low frequency CTVs (e.g., hear), and made more sophisticated corrections to ungrammatical sentences containing high frequency CTVs. The data suggest that, like adults, children are sensitive to lexico-constructional collocations. The implications for language acquisition are discussed. |
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