Frequent vs. infrequent words shape toddlers' real-time sentence comprehension.
Frequent vs. infrequent words shape toddlers' real-time sentence comprehension.
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频繁与不频繁的单词会影响幼儿的实时句子理解。
DOI：
10.1017/s0305000923000387
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Lew-Williams,Casey
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作者：
Potter,ChristineE;Lew-Williams,Casey
我们考察了名词频率和周围语言环境的典型性如何有助于儿童的实时理解。学习单语英语的幼儿在听带有典型或非典型句型的句子时观看成对的图片(参见…对比检查…)，紧随其后的名词是所指事物的高频或低频标签(马与小马)。幼儿对典型句型和非典型句型中名词的理解没有显著差异。然而，他们在识别低频名词方面不那么准确，特别是在词汇量较小的蹒跚学步的孩子中。我们的结论是，幼儿能够在不同的句子语境中识别名词，但他们的表征是逐渐发展的。
We examined how noun frequency and the typicality of surrounding linguistic context contribute to children’s real-time comprehension. Monolingual English-learning toddlers viewed pairs of pictures while hearing sentences with typical or atypical sentence frames (Look at the… vs. Examine the…), followed by nouns that were higher- or lower-frequency labels for a referent (horse vs. pony). Toddlers showed no significant differences in comprehension of nouns in typical and atypical sentence frames. However, they were less accurate in recognizing lower-frequency nouns, particularly among toddlers with smaller vocabularies. We conclude that toddlers can recognize nouns in diverse sentence contexts, but their representations develop gradually.