Two-year-olds' sensitivity to speakers' intent: an alternative account of Samuelson and Smith
Two-year-olds' sensitivity to speakers' intent: an alternative account of Samuelson and Smith
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00320.x
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发表时间：
2004-02-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Reudor, A
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作者：
Diesendruck, G;Markson, L;Reudor, A
72岁的72岁儿童参加了一项研究，旨在测试两个相互竞争的说法，以说明上下文变化对儿童学习对象一词的能力的影响。机械账户假设，强调目标对象的上下文中的任何变化都会导致单词学习。社会派系的帐户认为，上下文中的变化必须被认为与说话者的交流意图有关。与后一个帐户一致，我们发现，当上下文中的变化是故意的，但在偶然的情况下，孩子们学会了这个词，而当说话者天真地熟悉对象的上下文时，孩子们就无法学习突出显示的对象的单词。
Seventy-two 2-year-olds participated in a study designed to test two competing accounts of the effect of contextual change on children's ability to learn a word for an object. The mechanistic account hypothesizes that any change in context that highlights a target object will lead to word learning; the social-pragmatic account maintains that a change in context must be perceived as relevant to the speaker's communicative intentions. Consistent with the latter account, we found that children learned the word when a change in context was intentional but not when it was accidental, and children failed to learn the word for the highlighted object when a speaker naive to the preceding context named the object.