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Title: | Temporal attention as a Scaffold for Language Development |
Author: | Diego Balaguer, Ruth de Martínez Álvarez, Anna Pons Gimeno, Ferran |
Keywords: | Adquisició del llenguatge Atenció Language acquisition Attention |
Issue Date: | 2-Feb-2016 |
Publisher: | Frontiers Media |
Abstract: | Language is one of the most fascinating abilities that humans possess. Infants demonstrate an amazing repertoire of linguistic abilities from very early on and reach an adult-like form incredibly fast. However, language is not acquired all at once but in an incremental fashion. In this article we propose that the attentional system may be one of the sources for this developmental trajectory in language acquisition. At birth, infants are endowed with an attentional system fully driven by salient stimuli in their environment, such as prosodic information (e.g., rhythm or pitch). Early stages of language acquisition could benefit from this readily available, stimulus-driven attention to simplify the complex speech input and allow word segmentation. At later stages of development, infants are progressively able to selectively attend to specific elements while disregarding others. This attentional ability could allow them to learn distant non-adjacent rules needed for morphosyntactic acquisition. Because non-adjacent dependencies occur at distant moments in time, learning these dependencies may require correctly orienting attention in the temporal domain. Here, we gather evidence uncovering the intimate relationship between the development of attention and language. We aim to provide a novel approach to human development, bridging together temporal attention and language acquisition. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00044 |
It is part of: | Frontiers in Psychology, 2016, vol. 7, num. 44 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/113440 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00044 |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació) Publicacions de projectes de recerca finançats per la UE |
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