Inkster Michelle, Wellsby Michele, Lloyd Ellen, Pexman Penny M
Language Processing Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2016 Mar 8;7:317. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00317. eCollection 2016.
Previous research showed an effect of words' rated body-object interaction (BOI) in children's visual word naming performance, but only in children 8 years of age or older (Wellsby and Pexman, 2014a). In that study, however, BOI was established using adult ratings. Here we collected ratings from a group of parents for children's BOI experience (child-BOI). We examined effects of words' child-BOI and also words' imageability on children's responses in an auditory word naming task, which is suited to the lexical processing skills of younger children. We tested a group of 54 children aged 6-7 years and a comparison group of 25 adults. Results showed significant effects of both imageability and child-BOI on children's auditory naming latencies. These results provide evidence that children younger than 8 years of age have richer semantic representations for high imageability and high child-BOI words, consistent with an embodied account of word meaning.
先前的研究表明，单词的评定身体-物体互动（BOI）对儿童的视觉单词命名表现有影响，但仅在8岁及以上的儿童中存在这种影响（韦尔斯比和佩克斯曼，2014a）。然而，在该研究中，BOI是通过成人评定来确定的。在此，我们收集了一组家长对儿童BOI体验（儿童-BOI）的评定。我们在一项听觉单词命名任务中考察了单词的儿童-BOI以及单词的形象性对儿童反应的影响，该任务适合年幼儿童的词汇加工技能。我们测试了一组54名6至7岁的儿童以及一个由25名成年人组成的对照组。结果表明，形象性和儿童-BOI对儿童的听觉命名潜伏期均有显著影响。这些结果提供了证据，表明8岁以下的儿童对高形象性和高儿童-BOI的单词具有更丰富的语义表征，这与基于身体体验的词义解释相一致。
