意义的学习维度:儿童获得的,但
Barbora Skarabela1, Nora Cuthbert1, Alice Rees1
1School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Cognitive psychology
|October 12, 2023
概括
儿童很早就能产生诸如"但是"之类的话语连接词,但直到七岁,他们才很难掌握它们的对比意义. 这凸显了使用和理解这些关键语言工具之间的差距.
科学领域:
- 心理语言学 心理语言学
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 语言获取 语言获取
背景情况:
- 话语连接词,如"但是"和"所以",对于连贯的沟通至关重要.
- 虽然儿童很早就产生了这些连接符,但他们的语义和务实理解却不太清楚.
- 现有的研究提出了关于对比意义的获得年龄的相互矛盾的证据.
研究的目的:
- 调查儿童对"但是"的对比意义的理解,与因果连接词"所以"相比.
- 确定获得对比话语连接意义的发展轨迹.
- 区分生产能力和连接语义的理解.
主要方法:
- 在八个实验中采用了一个单词学习范式.
- 给孩子们展示了使用"但是"或"所以"的句子,以推断出新的单词含义.
- 控制实验解决了潜在的任务需求,处理和推断困难.
主要成果:
- 两岁的孩子成功地用"所以"来推断单词的含义,而不是用"但是".
- 七岁以下的孩子们很难推断出"但是"的对比含义,而是经常推断出相关含义.
- 特定的背景允许五岁的孩子对"但是"进行对比的解释,尽管"所以"在这些背景下也被对比地解释.
结论:
- 儿童早期产生话语连接词,掩盖了学习其精确含义的重大困难.
- "但是"和"所以"代表了易于模仿但难以从自然主义输入中学习的单词.
- 这些发现对单词学习理论和复杂语言结构的获取有意义.
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