Whole-to-part development in language creation

Susan Goldin-Meadow; Inbal Arnon

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2024.09.015

Whole-to-part development in language creation

Susan Goldin-Meadow^*, Inbal Arnon

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Psychology

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Abstract

Children approach language by learning parts and constructing wholes. But they can also first learn wholes and then discover parts. We demonstrate this understudied yet impactful process in children creating language without input. Whole-to-part learning thus need not be driven by hard-to-segment input and is a bias that children bring to language.

Original language	English
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.09.015
State	Accepted/In press - 2024

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Keywords

causative structure
homesign
language creation
language learning
morphology
starting big

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