对于最小的对来说,获得最小的收益:学习类似声音的单词的困难一直持续到学龄前
1Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Journal of experimental child psychology
|December 22, 2023
概括
与成年人相比,6岁以下的儿童在学习新的最小对单词方面扎,这表明在母语学习中详细识别声音模式的发展路径很长.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 语言学的语言学.
- 语音感知 语音感知
背景情况:
- 区分最小对对于口语能力至关重要.
- 婴儿和成年人可以区分类似的单词,但发育轨迹不清楚.
- 了解精细的语音区别的学习曲线是语言学习研究的关键.
研究的目的:
- 与成年人相比,研究3-6岁儿童学习最小对单词的发展轨迹.
- 为了确定学习最小对是否在发展早期出现非线性增长,还是随着经验的延长而改善.
- 评估词汇熟悉和学习实例对儿童区分类似声音词语的能力的影响.
主要方法:
- 在单语英语儿童 (3-6岁) 和年轻成年人身上进行了三项实验.
- 参与者学习了新的最小对单词,并与成年人和学习不同单词进行了比较.
- 研究了增加学习实例 (四倍) 对最小对词识别的影响.
主要成果:
- 与成年人相比,儿童在学习最小对单词方面表现不佳.
- 儿童表现出缺陷,即使语言材料优化和学习实例增加.
- 最年轻的孩子可以识别熟悉的最小对,这表明了某种程度的既定语音歧视.
结论:
- 结果表明,在母语中学习详细的声音模式的发展轨迹是漫长的.
- 早期发育可能不会显示最小对区分能力的急剧非线性增长.
- 需要进一步的研究,以探索更广泛的年龄和语言背景的发展轨迹.
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