Afficher la notice abrégée

hal.structure.identifierCentre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques [IKER]
dc.contributor.authorIRURTZUN, Aritz
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractEnIn recent research (Boeckx and Benítez-Burraco, 2014a,b) have advanced the hypothesis that our species-specific language-ready brain should be understood as the outcome of developmental changes that occurred in our species after the split from Neanderthals-Denisovans, which resulted in a more globular braincase configuration in comparison to our closest relatives, who had elongated endocasts. According to these authors, the development of a globular brain is an essential ingredient for the language faculty and in particular, it is the centrality occupied by the thalamus in a globular brain that allows its modulatory or regulatory role, essential for syntactico-semantic computations. Their hypothesis is that the syntactico-semantic capacities arise in humans as a consequence of a process of globularization, which significantly takes place postnatally (cf. Neubauer et al., 2010). In this paper, I show that Boeckx and Benítez-Burraco's hypothesis makes an interesting developmental prediction regarding the path of language acquisition: it teases apart the onset of phonological acquisition and the onset of syntactic acquisition (the latter starting significantly later, after globularization). I argue that this hypothesis provides a developmental rationale for the prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis of language acquisition (cf. i.a. Gleitman and Wanner, 1982; Mehler et al., 1988, et seq.; Gervain and Werker, 2013), which claim that prosodic cues are employed for syntactic parsing. The literature converges in the observation that a large amount of such prosodic cues (in particular, rhythmic cues) are already acquired before the completion of the globularization phase, which paves the way for the premises of the prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis, allowing babies to have a rich knowledge of the prosody of their target language before they can start parsing the primary linguistic data syntactically.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherFrontiers Media
dc.subject.enpostnatal development
dc.subject.enlanguage acquisition
dc.subject.enlanguage development
dc.subject.enprosodic bootstrapping
dc.subject.englobularization
dc.title.enThe “Globularization Hypothesis” of the Language-ready Brain as a Developmental Frame for Prosodic Bootstrapping Theories of Language Acquisition
dc.typeArticle de revue
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01817
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique
bordeaux.journalFrontiers in Psychology
bordeaux.page1817
bordeaux.volume6
bordeaux.peerReviewedoui
hal.identifierhal-02017982
hal.version1
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-02017982v1
bordeaux.COinSctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Frontiers%20in%20Psychology&rft.date=2015&rft.volume=6&rft.spage=1817&rft.epage=1817&rft.au=IRURTZUN,%20Aritz&rft.genre=article


Fichier(s) constituant ce document

FichiersTailleFormatVue

Il n'y a pas de fichiers associés à ce document.

Ce document figure dans la(les) collection(s) suivante(s)

Afficher la notice abrégée