Imageability predicts the age of acquisition of verbs in Chinese children.
Imageability predicts the age of acquisition of verbs in Chinese children.
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DOI：
10.1017/s0305000908009008
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发表时间：
2009-03
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Tardif, Twila
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作者：
Ma, Weiyi;Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick;Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy;McDonough, Colleen;Tardif, Twila
在英语和许多其他语言中，动词比名词更难学，但在汉语中相对容易学。本文通过考察可想象性的结构，或一个词产生心理形象的能力，评估了对这些发现的一种可能的解释。用汉语交际发展量表对汉语词汇的可想象性进行评分。可想像性评分是汉语名词和动词习得年龄的可靠预测因子。此外，尽管早期汉语和英语名词在可想象性上没有差异，但汉语动词的可想象性评分高于英语。与输入频率相比，汉语和英语动词学习习得年龄（AoA）的差异有一部分是可想象性独立造成的。
Verbs are harder to learn than nouns in English and in many other languages, but are relatively easy to learn in Chinese. This paper evaluates one potential explanation for these findings by examining the construct of imageability, or the ability of a word to produce a mental image. Chinese adults rated the imageability of Chinese words from the Chinese Communicative Development Inventory. Imageability ratings were a reliable predictor of age of acquisition in Chinese for both nouns and verbs. Furthermore, whereas early Chinese and English nouns do not differ in imageability, verbs receive higher imageability ratings in Chinese than in English. Compared with input frequency, imageability independently accounts for a portion of the variance in age of acquisition (AoA) of verb learning in Chinese and English.