Abstract
AbstractIn current developmental psychological research, it is assumed that from the very onset, processes of rule detection play a central role in supporting children’s language acquisition. In the present study a training methodology was used in order to investigate whether fostering the ability to detect rules (i.e. inductive reasoning) also enhances young children’s language competence. The results of two experiments show that inductive reasoning training considerably improved inductive reasoning as well as children’s language competence, but exclusively when rule detection or comparison of attributes is involved: in syntax, derivational morphology, and semantics. More than six months after training, the effects had become even more pronounced. As an important null effect, the use of irregular grammatical forms did not benefit at all.
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