Two-year-olds interpret novel phonological neighbors as familiar words.
Two-year-olds interpret novel phonological neighbors as familiar words.
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两岁的孩子将新奇的语音邻居解释为熟悉的单词。
DOI：
10.1037/dev0000114
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Swingley,Daniel
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作者：
Swingley,Daniel
当孩子们在一个呈现新奇物体和熟悉物体的语境中听到一个新奇的词时，他们通常会认为这个新奇的词指的是这个新奇的物体。在一系列的实验中，我们测试了这种行为是否会被发现时，2岁的孩子解释新的单词，从熟悉的单词只有一个声音不同的语音，无论是元音或辅音。在这些条件下，孩子们几乎总是选择熟悉的物体，虽然眼睛运动的检查表明，儿童没有检测到测试的语音区别。因此，当孩子们这样做的时候，他们会忽略可察觉的语音变化，这样做可以在不假设一个新词的情况下解决说话者的意思。词汇量较大的儿童比词汇量较小的儿童更经常地解释新单词。结果表明，虽然幼儿解释语音学习的语音系统，这并不意味着儿童认为，语音的区别意味着词汇的区别。
When children hear a novel word in a context presenting a novel object and a familiar one, they usually assume that the novel word refers to the novel object. In a series of experiments, we tested whether this behavior would be found when 2-year-olds interpreted novel words that differed phonologically from familiar words in only 1 sound, either a vowel or consonant. Under these conditions children almost always chose the familiar object, though examination of eye movements showed that children did detect the tested phonological distinctions. Thus, children discounted perceptible phonological variations when doing so permitted a resolution of the speaker’s meaning without postulating a new word. Children with larger vocabularies made novel-word interpretations more often than children with smaller vocabularies did. The results suggest that although young children do interpret speech in terms of a learned phonological system, this does not mean that children assume that phonological distinctions imply lexical distinctions.