Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig School of Psychology, University of Plymouth School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester.
Cogn Sci. 2009 Jan;33(1):75-103. doi: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2008.01004.x.
This study investigates the child-directed speech (CDS) of four Russian-, six German, and six English-speaking mothers to their 2-year-old children. Typologically Russian has considerably less restricted word order than either German or English, with German showing more word-order variants than English. This could lead to the prediction that the lexical restrictiveness previously found in the initial strings of English CDS by Cameron-Faulkner, Lieven, and Tomasello (2003) would not be found in Russian or German CDS. However, despite differences between the three corpora that clearly derive from typological differences between the languages, the most significant finding of this study is a high degree of lexical restrictiveness at the beginnings of CDS utterances in all three languages.
本研究调查了四位讲俄语、六位讲德语和六位讲英语的母亲对其 2 岁孩子使用的儿童指向言语（CDS）。从类型学角度来看，俄语的语序限制比德语或英语要少得多，而德语的语序变体比英语多。这可能导致人们预测，卡梅伦-福克纳（Cameron-Faulkner）、利文（Lieven）和托马塞洛（Tomasello）（2003 年）之前在英语 CDS 的初始字符串中发现的词汇限制在俄语或德语 CDS 中不会出现。然而，尽管三个语料库之间存在明显源自语言类型学差异的差异，但本研究最显著的发现是，所有三种语言的 CDS 话语开头都具有高度的词汇限制。
