THE DEVELOPMENT OF VERB CONCEPTS - CHILDRENS USE OF VERBS TO LABEL FAMILIAR AND NOVEL EVENTS
THE DEVELOPMENT OF VERB CONCEPTS - CHILDRENS USE OF VERBS TO LABEL FAMILIAR AND NOVEL EVENTS
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb02811.x
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发表时间：
1990-06-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
BEHREND, DA
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作者：
BEHREND, DA
动作、结果和工具在动词概念中的重要性通过四项研究进行了检验。研究一调查了儿童如何将熟悉的事件标记为工具、动作和结果动词的合适标记。在研究2中，受试者学习了新的动词，并被要求使用这些动词来标记工具、动作或结果发生变化的事件。研究1表明，3岁的儿童比年龄较大的儿童和成人更频繁地使用动作动词，并且当两个动词都是适当的标签时，他们更喜欢使用动作动词而不是结果动词。工具动词最常被用作对事件的第一反应，也最常被年龄较大的儿童和成年人使用。在研究2中，受试者最不可能使用新奇的动词来标记结果发生变化的事件。这种影响随着年龄的增长而增强。行动改变对所有年龄段的影响都是中等的，而工具改变的影响最小。研究3和4排除了刺激性突显和熟悉的词汇策略作为对这些发现的解释。这些研究从概念发展、词汇学习策略、名词和动词的语义组织等方面对当前的理论和研究进行了讨论。
The importance of actions, results, and instruments in verb concepts was examined in four studies. Study 1 investigated how children label familiar events for which instrument, action, and result verbs were appropriate labels. In Study 2, subjects were taught novel verbs and were asked to use these verbs to label events in which the instrument, action, or result had been changed. Study 1 showed that 3-year-olds used action verbs more frequently than older children and adults, and that they preferred to use an action verb over a result verb when both verbs were appropriate labels. Instrument verbs were used most frequently as first responses to the events, and were most frequently used by older children and adults. In Study 2, subjects were least likely to use the novel verbs to label events in which the result had changed. This effect increased with age. Action changes had a moderate effect for all age groups, while instrument changes had the weakest effect. Studies 3 and 4 ruled out stimulus salience and a familiar word strategy as interpretations of these findings. The studies are discussed in terms of current theory and research on conceptual development, word-learning strategies, and the semantic organization of nouns and verbs.