Lieven E V, Pine J M, Baldwin G
Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, UK.
J Child Lang. 1997 Feb;24(1):187-219. doi: 10.1017/s0305000996002930.
Pine & Lieven (1993) suggest that a lexically-based positional analysis can account for the structure of a considerable proportion of children's early multiword corpora. The present study tests this claim on a second, larger sample of eleven children aged between 1;0 and 3;0 from a different social background, and extends the analysis to later in development. Results indicate that the positional analysis can account for a mean of 60% of all the children's multiword utterances and that the great majority of all other utterances are defined as frozen by the analysis. Alternative explanations of the data based on hypothesizing underlying syntactic or semantic relations are investigated through analyses of pronoun case marking and of verbs with prototypical agent-patient roles. Neither supports the view that the children's utterances are being produced on the basis of general underlying rules and categories. The implications of widespread distributional learning in early language development are discussed.
派恩和利文（1993）认为，基于词汇的位置分析能够解释相当一部分儿童早期多词语料库的结构。本研究以来自不同社会背景的11名年龄在1岁0个月至3岁0个月的儿童组成的第二个更大样本对这一说法进行了检验，并将分析扩展至儿童发育的后期阶段。结果表明，位置分析平均能够解释所有儿童多词话语的60%，并且分析将绝大多数其他话语定义为固定搭配。通过对代词格标记以及具有典型施事-受事角色的动词的分析，研究了基于假设潜在句法或语义关系对数据的其他解释。两者均不支持儿童话语是基于一般潜在规则和类别产生的观点。文中讨论了早期语言发展中广泛分布学习的影响。
