Language-Related Motion Event Similarities in English- and Spanish-Speaking Children
Language-Related Motion Event Similarities in English- and Spanish-Speaking Children
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DOI：
10.1207/s15327647jcd0603_5
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发表时间：
2005-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Hohenstein, Jill M.
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作者：
Hohenstein, Jill M.
思维和语言之间的关系进行了探讨，使用2个实验测试单语西班牙语和英语为母语的儿童的视觉运动事件刺激的反应。在一个匹配到样本的任务（实验1）7岁的英语发言者固定在视频匹配的方式（而不是路径）的目标视频更经常比西班牙语发言的7岁的孩子和两个3.5岁的组。在实验2中，同样的孩子看到了新的运动事件配对的音频描述包含一个新的动词。这些描述在句法上暗示了这个动词指的是方式或路径，然后孩子们会盯着与这个新动词相匹配的视频。虽然所有的儿童更经常地固定在方式的方式条件下，互动效果表明，只有7岁的孩子在动词学习的词汇倾向的偏见。这些结果表明，一些非语言思维可能与语言结构等因素有关。
The relation between thought and language was explored using 2 experiments testing monolingual Spanish- and English-speaking children's responses to visual motion event stimuli. In a match-to-sample task (Experiment 1) 7-year-old English speakers fixated on videos matching the manner (rather than path) of a target video more often than Spanish-speaking 7-year-olds and both 3.5-year-old groups. In Experiment 2 the same children viewed novel motion events paired with audio descriptions containing a novel verb. These descriptions syntactically implied that the verb referred to either manner or path. Children then fixated on the video matching the novel verb. Although all children fixated on manner more often in the manner condition, an interaction effect showed that only 7-year-olds were biased by lexical tendencies in verb learning. These results suggest that some nonlinguistic thought may be linked to, among other things, linguistic structure.