Individuation of objects and events: a developmental study.
Individuation of objects and events: a developmental study.
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物体和事件的个体化:一项发展研究。
DOI:
10.1016/s0010-0277(03)00143-4
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发表时间:
2003
期刊:
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Carey,Susan
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文献类型:
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作者:
Wagner,Laura;Carey,Susan
This study investigates children's ability to use language to guide their choice of individuation criterion in the domains of objects and events. Previous work (Shipley, E. F., & Shepperson, B. (1990). Countable entities: developmental changes. Cognition, 34, 109–136.) has shown that children have a strong bias to use a spatio-temporal individuation strategy when counting objects and that children will ignore a conflicting linguistic description in favor of this spatio-temporal bias. Experiment 1 asked children (3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds) and adults to count objects and events under different linguistic descriptions. In the object task, subjects counted pictures of familiar objects split into multiple pieces (as in Shipley, E. F., & Shepperson, B. (1990). Countable entities: developmental changes. Cognition, 34, 109–136.) and described either using an appropriate kind label (e.g. “car”) or the general term “thing”. In the event task, subjects watched short animated movies consisting of a goal-oriented event achieved via multiple, temporally separated steps. The events were described either with an appropriate telic predicate targeting the goal (e.g. “paint a flower”) or with an atelic predicate targeting the steps in the process (e.g. “paint”) and the subjects' task was to count the events. Relative to adults, children preferred a spatio-temporal counting strategy in both tasks; there was no difference among the three groups of children. However, children were able to significantly change their counting strategy to follow the linguistic description in the event but not the object task. Experiment 2 extended the object task to include counting of other types of non-spatio-temporal units such as sub-parts of objects and collections. Results showed that children could use the linguistic descriptions to guide their counting strategy for these new items, though they continued to show a bias for a spatio-temporal individuation strategy with the collections. We suggest potential cognitive origins for the spatio-temporal individuation bias and how it interacts with children's developing linguistic knowledge.
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DOI:
10.1093/clinids/9.supplement_4.s372
发表时间:
1987
期刊:
Reviews of infectious diseases
影响因子:
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作者:
R. Baughn
通讯作者:
R. Baughn
影响因子:
6.6
作者:
D. Reichert;D. Lamm
通讯作者:
D. Lamm
影响因子:
11.2
作者:
Winters,WD;Lamm,DL
通讯作者:
Lamm,DL
DOI:
10.1093/clinids/9.supplement_4.s351
发表时间:
1987
期刊:
Reviews of infectious diseases
影响因子:
--
作者:
Simpson,WA;Courtney,HS;Ofek,I
通讯作者:
Ofek,I
DOI:
10.1093/clinids/9.supplement_4.s404
发表时间:
1987-07
期刊:
Reviews of infectious diseases
影响因子:
--
作者:
J. Keski‐oja;A. Hautanen;I. Julkunen
通讯作者:
J. Keski‐oja;A. Hautanen;I. Julkunen