PAPER Two-year-olds compute syntactic structure …

Developmental Science 13:1 (2010), pp 69 76 DOI: PAPER . Two-year-olds compute syntactic structure on-line Savita Bernal,1 Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz,2,3 Se verine Millotte1,4 and Anne Christophe1,5. 1 . Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, EHESS CNRS DEC-ENS, Paris, France 2 . INSERM, Neurospin, Gif Yvette, France 3 . AP-HP, Service de NeuroP diatrie, CHU Bic tre, Paris, France 4 . Laboratoire de Psycholinguistique Exp rimentale, University of Geneva, Switzerland 5 . Maternit Port-Royal, Facult de M decine Paris Descartes, France Abstract Syntax allows human beings to build an infinite number of new sentences from a finite stock of words. Because toddlers typically utter only one or two words at a time, they have been thought to have no syntax. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), we demonstrated that 2- year - olds do compute syntactic structure when listening to spoken sentences. We observed an early left- lateralized brain response when an expected verb was incorrectly replaced by a noun (or vice versa).

PAPER Two-year-olds compute syntactic structure on-line Savita Bernal,1 Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz,2,3 Se´verine Millotte1,4 and Anne Christophe1,5 1. Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, EHESS⁄CNRS⁄DEC-ENS, Paris, France

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