Can English-learning toddlers acquire and generalize a novel spatial word?  

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Casasola, Marianella ; Wilbourn, Makeba Parramore ; Yang, Sujin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 26 no. 77 (May 2006), page 187-205.
Fulltext: Marianella Casasola; Makeba Parramore Wilbourn; Sujin Yang.pdf (1.3MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/FIL/26 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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English-learning toddlers of 21 and 22 months were taught a novel spatial word for four actions resulting in a tight-fit spatial relation, a relation that is lexically marked in Korean but not English (Choi & Bowerman, 1991). Toddlers in a control condition viewed the same tight-fit action events without the novel word. Toddlers' comprehension of the novel word was tested in a preferential-looking paradigm. Across four videotaped pairs of action events, a tight-fit event was paired with a loose-fit event. Only toddlers who were taught the novel spatial word looked significantly longer at the tight-fit events during the test trials that presented the novel word than during control trials that presented neutral linguistic stimuli. The results indicate that toddlers can map and generalize a novel word onto actions resulting in a tight-fit relation, given limited experience with the novel word. The results provide insight into how young word learners begin to form language-specific semantic spatial categories.

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