12-Month-Olds' Phonotactic Knowledge Guides Their Word-Object Mappings
12-Month-Olds' Phonotactic Knowledge Guides Their Word-Object Mappings
复制标题
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01764.x
复制
发表时间：
2012-07-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Graham, Susan A.
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
MacKenzie, Heather;Curtin, Suzanne;Graham, Susan A.
本研究探讨了在联想学习任务中，12个月大的婴儿是否会接受与母语在语音和发音上不同的单词作为对象标签。60名婴儿分别接受了英语单词-对象（N = 30）、日语单词-对象（N = 15）或捷克语单词-对象（N = 15）配对，直到他们习惯为止。婴儿与CVCV英语，CCVC英语，CVCV日语单词，但没有CCVC捷克语单词，与新的对象。这些结果表明，到12个月大时，婴儿开始将他们的语言知识应用于接受单词形式。也就是说，他们不会将违反母语音位结构的单词映射到对象。
This study examined whether 12-month-olds will accept words that differ phonologically and phonetically from their native language as object labels in an associative learning task. Sixty infants were presented with sets of English word-object (N = 30), Japanese word-object (N = 15), or Czech word-object (N = 15) pairings until they habituated. Infants associated CVCV English, CCVC English, and CVCV Japanese words, but not CCVC Czech words, with novel objects. These results demonstrate that by 12 months of age, infants are beginning to apply their language-specific knowledge to their acceptance of word forms. That is, they will not map words that violate the phonotactics of their native language to objects.