Two‐year‐olds compute syntactic structure on‐line

Developmental Science - Tập 13 Số 1 - Trang 69-76 - 2010
Savita Bernal1, Ghislaine Dehaene‐Lambertz2,3, Séverine Millotte4,1, Anne Christophe1,5
1Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (EHESS/CNRS/DEC-ENS), Paris, France
2AP-HP, Service de NeuroPédiatrie, CHU Bicêtre, Paris, France
3INSERM, Neurospin, Gif/Yvette, France
4Laboratoire de Psycholinguistique Expérimentale, University of Geneva, Switzerland
5Maternité Port-Royal, Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes, France

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AbstractSyntax allows human beings to build an infinite number of new sentences from a finite stock of words. Because toddlers typically utter only one or two words at a time, they have been thought to have no syntax. Using event‐related potentials (ERPs), we demonstrated that 2‐year‐olds do compute syntactic structure when listening to spoken sentences. We observed an early left‐lateralized brain response when an expected verb was incorrectly replaced by a noun (or vice versa). Thus, toddlers build on‐line expectations as to the syntactic category of the next word in a sentence. In addition, the response topography was different for nouns and verbs, suggesting that different neural networks already underlie noun and verb processing in toddlers, as they do in adults.

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Developmental Science

Tập 13 Số 1

69-76

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