2026-05-17T21:36:58Zhttps://www.bilketa.eus/in/rest/oaioai:www.bilketa.eus:ark:/27020/hal-03805225ALL2025-06-05T09:19:40Z https://www.bilketa.eus/ark:/27020/hal-03805225Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd)Department of General Linguistics and Basque Studies ; Universidad del País Vasco [Espainia] / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea [España] = University of the Basque Country [Spain] = Université du pays basque [Espagne] (UPV / EHU)Ikerbasque - Basque Foundation for ScienceCentre Neurosciences intégratives et Cognition / Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center (INCC - UMR 8002) ; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)ANR-10-LABX-0083,EFL,Empirical Foundations of Linguistics : data, methods, models(2010)de la Cruz-Pavía, IreneMarino, CaterinaGervain, JuditHAL, hal-038052252021-09International audienceWe examine the beginning of the acquisition of the relative order of function and content words, a fundamental but cross-linguistically highly variable aspect of grammar. A review of the existing empirical literature shows that infants as young as 8 months of age can distinguish between functors and content words, and have a rudimentary knowledge of the order of these two universal lexical categories in their native language. Furthermore, human adults and nonhuman animals such as rodents process the same linguistic information differently from infants, emphasizing the developmental relevance of bootstrapping function/content word order from surface cues available in the input. We discuss the implications of these findings for a synergistic view of language acquisition, considering how grammar acquisition interacts with word learning.https://hal.science/hal-03805225https://hal.science/hal-03805225v1/file/delaCruzetal21.pdfArticle de journal | Aldizkari bateko artikuluavignette : https://www.bilketa.eus/in/rest/Thumb/image?id=ark:/27020/hal-03805225&mat=articleNumengArchive ouverte HAL | HAL artxibo irekia[SCCO]Cognitive scienceLearning word order: early beginnings