Pruden Shannon M, Hirsh-Pasek Kathy, Golinkoff Roberta Michnick, Hennon Elizabeth A
Temple University, PA 19122, USA.
Child Dev. 2006 Mar-Apr;77(2):266-80. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00869.x.
A core task in language acquisition is mapping words onto objects, actions, and events. Two studies investigated how children learn to map novel labels onto novel objects. Study 1 investigated whether 10-month-olds use both perceptual and social cues to learn a word. Study 2, a control study, tested whether infants paired the label with a particular spatial location rather than to an object. Results show that 10-month-olds can learn new labels and do so by relying on the perceptual salience of an object instead of social cues provided by a speaker. This is in direct contrast to the way in which older children (12-, 18-, and 24-month-olds) learn and extend new object names.
语言习得中的一项核心任务是将词语与物体、动作和事件建立联系。两项研究探讨了儿童如何学会将新标签与新物体建立联系。研究1调查了10个月大的婴儿是否利用感知线索和社交线索来学习一个单词。研究2作为对照研究,测试了婴儿是否将标签与特定的空间位置而非物体联系起来。结果表明,10个月大的婴儿能够学习新标签,并且是通过依赖物体的感知显著性而非说话者提供的社交线索来做到这一点的。这与年龄较大的儿童(12个月、18个月和24个月大)学习和扩展新物体名称的方式形成了直接对比。