Havron Naomi, Arnon Inbal
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Israel.
J Child Lang. 2017 Nov;44(6):1516-1538. doi: 10.1017/S0305000916000623. Epub 2017 Jan 9.
Can emergent literacy impact the size of the linguistic units children attend to? We examined children's ability to segment multiword sequences before and after they learned to read, in order to disentangle the effect of literacy and age on segmentation. We found that early readers were better at segmenting multiword units (after controlling for age, cognitive, and linguistic variables), and that improvement in literacy skills between the two sessions predicted improvement in segmentation abilities. Together, these findings suggest that literacy acquisition, rather than age, enhanced segmentation. We discuss implications for models of language learning.
早期读写能力会影响儿童关注的语言单位的大小吗？我们研究了儿童在学习阅读前后对多词序列进行切分的能力，以厘清读写能力和年龄对切分的影响。我们发现，早期阅读者在切分多词单位方面表现更好（在控制了年龄、认知和语言变量之后），并且两次测试之间读写能力的提高预示着切分能力的提高。这些发现共同表明，是读写能力的获得而非年龄增强了切分能力。我们讨论了这些发现对语言学习模型的启示。
