社会偶然性如何促进词汇的发展?
Elena Luchkina1,2, Fei Xu2
1Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Developmental science
|May 7, 2024
概括
经常响应婴儿发音的父母支持更大的词汇. 这种响应能力,而不仅仅是语言数量或简单性,似乎是早期语言发展和理解沟通的关键.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 儿童语言的获取儿童语言的获取
- 婴儿通信 婴儿通信
背景情况:
- 父母的反应能力与婴儿的词汇量增长有关.
- 推动这种关系的机制仍然不清楚.
- 假设包括增加语言输入,更简单的输入或增强对沟通的理解.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究父母的社会偶然性如何影响婴儿的词汇发展.
- 区分竞争的假设,解释响应能力和词汇之间的联系.
主要方法:
- 对9个月后自然主义的父母婴儿相互作用数据的分析.
- 评估12个月的婴儿接收词汇.
- 统计建模用于控制语言输入量和简单性.
主要成果:
- 父母的口头随机反应的频率显著预测了12个月的婴儿接收词汇.
- 这种预测关系独立于提供的语言输入量.
- 随机相互作用中使用的语言的简单性无法解释这种效应.
结论:
- 父母的反应能力,特别是随机语言反应的频率,是早期词汇获取的关键因素.
- 响应性可能会提高婴儿对语言沟通性质的理解.
- 这种增强的沟通理解,而不是输入数量或简单性,推动了词汇的增长.
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