Keio University at Shonan-Fujisawa Fujisawa, Japan.
Front Psychol. 2010 Dec 8;1:194. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00194. eCollection 2010.
This paper explores the effect of classifiers on young children's conceptual structures. For this purpose we studied Mandarin Chinese- and German-speaking 3- and 5-year-olds on non-lexical classification, novel-noun label extension, and inductive inference of novel properties. Some effect of the classifier system was found in Chinese children, but this effect was observed only in a non-lexical categorization task. In the label extension and property generalization tasks, children of the two language groups show strikingly similar behavior. The implications of the results for theories of the relation between language and thought as well as cultural influence on thought are discussed.
本文探讨了分类器对幼儿概念结构的影响。为此，我们对 3 岁和 5 岁的讲汉语普通话和德语的儿童进行了非词汇分类、新名词标签扩展和新属性的归纳推理研究。在汉语儿童中发现了分类器系统的一些影响，但这种影响仅在非词汇分类任务中观察到。在标签扩展和属性泛化任务中，两个语言群体的儿童表现出惊人相似的行为。讨论了这些结果对语言与思维关系理论以及文化对思维影响的启示。
