Early noun lexicons in English and Japanese.
Early noun lexicons in English and Japanese.
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早期英语和日语名词词典。
DOI：
10.1016/s0010-0277(01)00153-6
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发表时间：
2001
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Smith,LB
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作者：
Yoshida,H;Smith,LB
先前的研究表明，学习多种语言的儿童获得了相似的早期名词词汇，并且是通过相似的普遍过程实现的。我们在这里报告了两项研究的结果，这两项研究表明说英语和说日语的儿童在早期名词学习方面存在差异。实验一考察了英语和日语儿童词汇中动物名称和物体名称的相对数量。说英语的孩子的词汇量严重失衡，宾语比动物名字多得多，而说日语的孩子的词汇量更均衡。实验2采用一种新颖的名词延伸任务来考察幼儿对动物和人工制品类别的不同组织的了解程度。结果表明，早期的英语学习者(而不是日语学习者)将他们所知道的物体类别过度概括为动物类别。讨论了文化、输入和语言结构在早期名词习得中的作用。
Previous research suggests that children learning a variety of languages acquire similar early noun vocabularies and do so by similar and universal processes. We report here results from two studies that show differences in the early noun learning of English- and Japanese-speaking children. Experiment 1 examined the relative numbers of animal names and object names in vocabularies of English-speaking and Japanese-speaking children. English-speaking children's vocabularies were heavily lopsided with many more object than animal names whereas Japanese-speaking children's vocabularies were more evenly balanced. Experiment 2 used a novel noun extension task to examine what young children know about the different organizations of animal and artifact categories. The results suggest that early learners of English but not Japanese over-generalize what they know about object categories to animal categories. The role of culture, input and linguistic structure in early noun acquisitions is discussed.