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Comparative Analysis of the Two Raw Materials of Input in Early Child Language Acquisition

Author: SunQiong
Tutor: DanXingYuan
School: Harbin University of Science and Technology
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Child Language Acquisition Children to language Type - the class of cases than Common nouns Verb
CLC: H08
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Children's language acquisition is an important part of the study of language acquisition. Most of the domestic and foreign children's language acquisition research focuses on speech output. Explore speech input is relatively little research. Research and common sense that children must contact language to acquisition of a language. In this paper, the corpus of early childhood language acquisition in Mandarin and English input of raw materials, comparative analysis of the role of both in language acquisition. In this paper, the critical period hypothesis, non-macro language acquisition theory as the theoretical support, review of Chomsky's Universal Grammar and children to the bilingual and monolingual acquisition. Each of the parents (or caregivers) speak one language to the child and the parents (or caregivers) to the child who speaks two languages ??input mode. This paper studies three issues: the proportion of children to the wording of the language and children, as well as a common noun and verb proportion; comparison of one person, one language and one bilingual input mode; speech input, speech understanding and speech absorb the relationship between the three . Quantitative analysis of this paper, the method is applied to the analysis of the wording of the proportion of Clan (computer language) software analysis corpus obtained from the child language data exchange system and Mandarin - English bilingual transcription, while the other two questions using the case study method. The accounting class cases (the actual occurrence of the word) by the total number of corpus types (different words) analysis of the proportion of the total number of class example of the type of children - the proportion is significantly higher than the proportion in the mother's corpus. With age, the proportion to narrow the gap. Children to the language common nouns the proportion is lower than the proportion of the verb. Performance of different children's language acquisition. The children earlier acquisition of common nouns acquisition verb compared to other test children slow. Corpus of four children is the average common nouns wording ratio close to the average ratio of the verb was not significantly different. The case studies show that the absorption is not always contain the words of the speech input. Thus the Richards and Gallaway language input, language understanding and speech absorption of the relations between the model has been modified. In addition, case study examples to support one person, one advantage of the input mode. However, the speech input, speech understanding and speech absorb the modification of the model of the relations between the need to further deepen; Mandarin - English bilingual transliteration need to be strict with reference to child language data exchange system requirements specification, so that research in this area a broader, more reliable and more practical.

Comparative Analysis of the Two Raw Materials of Input in Early Child Language Acquisition

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