Leonard L B, Schwartz R G, Folger M K, Newhoff M, Wilcox M J
Child Dev. 1979 Mar;50(1):19-27.
3 experiments are reported in which the role of imitation in the acquisition of certain lexical items and factors influencing children's tendency to imitate these lexical items were examined. Imitation did not appear to facilitate the subsequent spontaneous use of lexical items. However, children's tendency to imitate lexical items appeared to be influenced by the novelty of the lexical item and its referent, the informativeness of the referent in the situation, and the lexical orientation of the children. The results are consistent with the interpretation that children's imitations involve the use of a supplied and previously unavailable lexical item under circumstances where lexical usage is highly probable.
本文报告了3项实验，研究了模仿在某些词汇习得中的作用以及影响儿童模仿这些词汇倾向的因素。模仿似乎并未促进随后词汇的自发使用。然而，儿童模仿词汇的倾向似乎受到词汇及其所指对象的新颖性、所指对象在情境中的信息量以及儿童的词汇取向的影响。这些结果与以下解释一致：儿童的模仿涉及在词汇使用可能性很高的情况下使用一个提供的且之前未出现过的词汇。
