EARLY LEXICAL ACQUISITION - RATE, CONTENT, AND THE VOCABULARY SPURT
EARLY LEXICAL ACQUISITION - RATE, CONTENT, AND THE VOCABULARY SPURT
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DOI:
10.1017/s0305000900013167
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发表时间:
1990-02-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
REZNICK, JS
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作者:
GOLDFIELD, BA;REZNICK, JS
The transition from slow to rapid word-learning was examined in a longitudinal study of 18 children. Beginning at age 1;2, mothers kept a diary of children's words. Diary entries were discussed during phone calls to the home every 2½ weeks. A chronological record of nouns and other word classes was coded from the diary records.Thirteen children evidenced a prolonged period of up to three months during which rate of acquisition markedly increased. Almost threequarters of the words learned during this period were nouns. Five children evidenced more gradual word-learning, and acquired a balance of nouns and other word classes. These results suggest that the terms ‘vocabulary spurt’ and ‘naming explosion’ best describe children who focus their early linguistic efforts on a single strategy: learning names for things. Other children may attempt to encode a broad range of experience with a more varied lexicon, a strategy that results in more gradual lexical growth.