The emergence of bifurcated structure in children's language.

ABSTRACT: Human language is unique among animal communication systems, in part because of its dual patterning in which meaningless phonological units combine to form meaningful words (phonological structure) and words combine to form sentences (lexicosyntactic structure). Although dual patterning is well recognized, its emergence in language development has been scarcely investigated. Chief among questions still unanswered is the extent to which development of these separate structures is independent or interdependent, and what supports acquisition of each level of structure. We explored these questions by examining growth of lexicosyntactic and phonological structure in children with normal hearing (n = 49) and children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants (n = 56). Multiple me

SUBMITTER: Nittrouer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9673040 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature