Abstract:
:Infants acquire whatever language is spoken in the environment into which they are born. The mental capability of the newborn child is not biased in any way towards the acquisition of one human language rather than another. Because psychologists who attempt to model the process of language comprehension are interested in the structure of the human mind, rather than in the properties of individual languages, strategies which they incorporate in their models are presumed to be universal, not language-specific. In other words, strategies of comprehension are presumed to be characteristic of the human language processing system, rather than, say, the French, English, or Igbo language processing systems. We report here, however, on a comprehension strategy which appears to be used by native speakers of French but not by native speakers of English.
journal_name
Naturejournal_title
Natureauthors
Cutler A,Mehler J,Norris D,Segui Jdoi
10.1038/304159a0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1983-07-14 00:00:00pages
159-60issue
5922eissn
0028-0836issn
1476-4687journal_volume
304pub_type
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