Social Lifts Must Go Upstairs: Artificial Input and Mechanisms of Language Acquisition by Children
Authors
Maria D. Voeikova
Corresponding Author
Maria D. Voeikova
Available Online August 2016.
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2991/icassr-15.2016.74How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- language acquisition, input, socio-economic status (SES), language proficiency, artificial input devices
- Abstract
- Children need a rich linguistic input for the sake of better mastering of their native language. However, for many socio-economic reasons they lack it if their parents 1) belong to the low SES families and are not motivated enough to educate their children; 2) are migrants and do not fluently speak the language of the surrounding; 3) are well-doing and professionally motivated but do not have enough time to communicate with their children; or if the children 4) demonstrate language deficits and disorders. We propose to create an Artificial Input Machine (AIM) with language-specific content organized as samples of Child-Directed Speech (CDS) that benefit from using of the “bootstrapping mechanisms” of the given language. The proposal described here is based on Russian data.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Maria D. Voeikova PY - 2016/08 DA - 2016/08 TI - Social Lifts Must Go Upstairs: Artificial Input and Mechanisms of Language Acquisition by Children BT - 3d International Conference on Applied Social Science Research (ICASSR 2015) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 261 EP - 264 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icassr-15.2016.74 DO - https://doi.org/10.2991/icassr-15.2016.74 ID - Voeikova2016/08 ER -