MOTION VERB ACQUISITION - DEVELOPMENT OF DEFINITIONS
MOTION VERB ACQUISITION - DEVELOPMENT OF DEFINITIONS
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DOI：
10.2466/pms.1988.66.3.979
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发表时间：
1988-06-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
GALLIVAN, J
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作者：
GALLIVAN, J
该实验探讨了受试者运动动词概念内容的变化作为发展的函数。 60 名受试者（3 岁、4 岁、5 岁和成人）参加了访谈，其中提出了旨在评估他们对 10 个动词含义的理解的问题。对所产生的反应类型、所讨论的概念实例的普遍性水平以及所提供的单词定义的适当性的分析都表明，儿童的概念最初是相当特殊的，并且主要限于对动词可以应用的情境和实体的知识。动词含义的发展似乎包括单词使用背后的概念的概括，替换有关单词可能适用的所指对象的特定信息。
This experiment explored as a function of development the changes in the content of subjects'' concepts of motion verbs. 60 subjects (3-yr.-olds, 4-yr.-olds, 5-yr.-olds and adults) took part in interviews in which questions designed to assess their understanding of the meanings of 10 verbs were posed. Analyses of the response-types produced, the level of generality of concept instances discussed, and the appropriateness of the word definitions supplied all indicated that children''s concepts are initially quite particular and limited mainly to knowledge of the situations and entities to which the verbs can apply. Development of verb meanings appears to consist of generalization of the concepts underlying use of the words, replacing particular specific information about the referents to which the words may apply.