Perrine Brusini

List of John Benjamins publications for which Perrine Brusini plays a role.

Articles

Brusini, Perrine, Alex de Carvalho, Isabelle Dautriche, Ariel Gutman, Elodie Cauvet, Séverine Millotte, Pascal Amsili and Anne Christophe 2018 Chapter 3. Bootstrapping lexical and syntactic acquisitionSources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners, Hickmann, Maya †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa (eds.), pp. 63–80 | Chapter
How does language acquisition start? Having access to words and their meaning should help infants to learn about syntax, but learning about word meaning would be facilitated if infants had access to syntactic structure (Gleitman 1990). Phrasal prosody and function words may bootstrap lexical and… read more
Christophe, Anne, Séverine Millotte, Perrine Brusini and Elodie Cauvet 2010 Chapter 3. Early bootstrapping of syntactic acquisitionLanguage Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems, Kail, Michèle and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 53–66 | Article
Infants acquiring language have to learn about the lexicon, the phonology, and the syntax of their native language, among others. For each of these domains, being able to rely on knowledge from the other domains would simplify the learner’s task. For instance, having access to words and their… read more