Social Lifts Must Go Upstairs: Artificial Input and Mechanisms of Language Acquisition by Children

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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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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Maria D. Voeikova
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TI  - Social Lifts Must Go Upstairs: Artificial Input and Mechanisms of Language Acquisition by Children
BT  - Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Applied Social Science Research
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 261
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SN  - 1951-6851
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