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Phonological Bootstrapping

Phonological Bootstrapping is a theoretical construct in the field of language acquisition whereby infants leverage the systematic mappings between phonological form and meaning to infer syntactic and semantic properties of words during early language development.

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The prosodic bootstrapping of phrases: Evidence from prelinguistic infants

Mélanie Söderström · Journal of Memory and Language · 2003 · 275 citations

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Do infants perceive word boundaries? An empirical study of the bootstrapping of lexical acquisition

Anne Christophe, Emmanuel Dupoux, Josiane Bertoncini et al. · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1994 · 229 citations

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Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: A Japanese–Italian cross-linguistic study

Judit Gervain, Marina Nespor, Reiko Mazuka et al. · Cognitive Psychology · 2008 · 178 citations

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The Ontogeny of Phonological Categories and the Primacy of Lexical Learning in Linguistic Development

Mary E. Beckman, Jan Edwards · Child Development · 2000 · 153 citations

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Reflections on Phonological Bootstrapping: Its Role for Lexical and Syntactic Acquisition

Language and Cognitive Processes · 1997 · 122 citations

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Authors

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    Catherine Laing

    Cardiff University, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 169 citations

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    Marelie H. Davel

    North-West University, South Africa

    2 publications · 32 citations

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    Emmanuel Dupoux

    Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, France

    2 publications · 250 citations

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  4. EB
    Etienne Barnard

    University of Pretoria, South Africa

    2 publications · 32 citations

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  5. JM
    Jacques Mehler

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    2 publications · 407 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. École des hautes études en sciences sociales

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. University of York

    York, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    120 citations

  5. Tamagawa University

    Tokyo, Japan

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    238 citations

  6. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    178 citations

  7. RIKEN Center for Brain Science

    Wako, Japan

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    356 citations

  8. University of Milano-Bicocca

    Milan, Italy

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    178 citations

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  1. Language and Cognitive Processes

    2 publications · 135 citations

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  2. Journal of Memory and Language

    1 publications · 275 citations

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  3. PLoS ONE

    1 publications · 119 citations

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  4. Developmental Science

    1 publications · 81 citations

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  5. Journal of Communication Disorders

    1 publications · 39 citations

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