George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA.
Percept Mot Skills. 2010 Oct;111(2):447-57. doi: 10.2466/10.11.28.PMS.111.5.447-457.
Preschoolers' knowledge of the appearance of proper names was tested in three experiments with 25 boys and 22 girls from low-income families. Children from a Head Start program, whose parents signed a permission letter, participated. Their ages ranged from 3 yr. 6 mo. to 5 yr. 6 mo. (M = 52.2 mo., SD = 4.9). When shown consonant-vowel-consonant trigrams such as Rit or baF or dEg with various capitalization patterns, the children showed a tendency to recognize that CVC trigrams with the first letter capitalized or all letters capitalized were the ones most likely to represent a person's name. When their own names were substituted, which typically contained more than three letters, their performance was markedly better. Children also had a strong tendency to consider trigrams of Latin letters as more likely to be a person's name than trigrams of non-Latin characters (e.g., Sanskrit).
在三个实验中，研究人员测试了 25 名男孩和 22 名来自低收入家庭的女孩对专有名词外观的了解程度。这些参与实验的孩子都来自于“先普计划”（Head Start program），他们的父母签署了同意书。他们的年龄在 3 岁 6 个月到 5 岁 6 个月之间（M = 52.2 个月，SD = 4.9）。当孩子们看到像 Rit 或 baF 或 dEg 这样的辅音-元音-辅音三字母组合，并且这些三字母组合有不同的大小写形式时，他们倾向于认为第一个字母大写或所有字母大写的 CVC 三字母组合更有可能代表一个人的名字。当他们自己的名字被替换成包含三个以上字母的名字时，他们的表现明显更好。孩子们也强烈倾向于认为拉丁字母的三字母组合比非拉丁字符（如梵语）的三字母组合更有可能是一个人的名字。
