翻倍:英格兰双语和单语幼儿之间的词汇大小比较
Serene Siow1,2, Nicola A Gillen1, Irina Lepădatu1
1Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
概括
双语幼儿的英语词汇比单语幼儿少,但当考虑概念理解时,这种差距会消失. 两种语言的总词汇量都更大,可能是因为他们有共同的词汇.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 语言学的语言学.
- 儿童语言获取 儿童语言获取
背景情况:
- 童年早期的双语越来越常见.
- 了解双语儿童的词汇发展对于教育和临床支持至关重要.
- 之前的研究表明,与单语儿童相比,双语幼儿的词汇量有不同的发现.
研究的目的:
- 为了比较双语和单语幼儿的英语词汇大小.
- 研究概念评分对词汇比较的影响.
- 检查双语幼儿的两种语言的概念词汇总量.
主要方法:
- 使用了家长报告词汇调查问卷.
- 参与者包括双语幼儿和年龄相匹配的英国单语英语 (12-36个月).
- 词汇在理解和生产方面都得到了评估.
主要成果:
- 双语幼儿的英语单词大小比单语幼儿要小.
- 使用概念评分时,理解中的词汇差距消失了.
- 概念评分减少了,但没有消除生产中的词汇差距.
- 双语幼儿在两种语言中表现出更大的概念词汇总量.
结论:
- 早期双语者的词汇发展与单语者的不同,特别是在单语言测量方面.
- 概念评分为双语者语言知识提供了更全面的视图.
- 跨语言重叠和语言接触影响双语儿童的词汇获取.
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