婴儿词切分:领域现状和展望

Infant Word Segmentation:The Current Situations and the Expectation

婴儿词切分是指婴儿从连续语流中准确找到词语的开头与结尾的行为。婴儿词切分不仅仅是婴儿前言语行为的一个重要主题,还为词汇识别、词语产生及阅读能力等研究领域打下坚实的基础。西方心理学的研究发现,婴儿词切分主要依靠四种特征线索:统计特征线索、韵律特征线索、协同发音特征线索以及音位知识特征线索。然而在我国,更多的相关研究是以婴儿的言语知觉为主题。

Segmenting words from continuous speech means that infants must locate the beginning and the end of words. Infant o word segmentation is not only an important subject of the prelin- guistic behavior, but also essential for building a vocabulary, word encoding and the reading comprehension. Previous research has shown that infants segment word-hke forms using various kinds of information such as distributional cues, prosodic cues, allophonic variations cues, and phonotactic cues. But there are only a few studies concerning infant word segmentation in China.