Entropy convergence in early bilinguals' syntactic packaging.

ABSTRACT: A core question in developmental and cognitive research concerns the way linguistic variation affects the acquisition process. Previous research on monolinguals suggests that children, but not adults, tend to regularize inconsistent input, resulting in reduced variation. Some recent claims explain regularization as a general bias linked to cognitive load. However, little is known about bilingual acquisition contexts where children naturally experience both increased variability and cognitive load. This study investigated the impact of between- and within-language variability in syntactic packaging (i.e., how semantic elements are mapped onto syntactic units) on simultaneous bilinguals' acquisition of motion event encoding. In this domain, French is considered highly variable, in contrast t

SUBMITTER: Engemann H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9616223 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature