Kelly D J, Rice M L
Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
J Speech Hear Res. 1994 Feb;37(1):182-92. doi: 10.1044/jshr.3701.182.
This study examined initial preferences for verb interpretation by children with specific language impairment (SLI), MLU-matched children, and age-matched children. Each child watched motion and change-of-state activity scenes on videotape and was then asked to point to the scene that depicted a novel verb, thereby indicating a preferred interpretation. The children were also asked to label the same activity scenes on a second tape. The findings indicated that the 5-year-old age-matched children exhibited a significant verb interpretation preference for the change-of-state scenes, whereas the children with specific language impairment and their 3-year-old MLU-matched peers did not have an interpretation preference for either the motion or change-of-state scenes. The children's labeling of the activity scenes yielded findings that further supported group differences on the two semantic verb categories. The findings suggest that children's initial verb interpretation biases vary relative to age and language proficiency.
本研究考察了患有特定语言障碍（SLI）的儿童、语言发展水平（MLU）匹配的儿童以及年龄匹配的儿童对动词解释的初始偏好。每个孩子观看录像带上的动作和状态变化活动场景，然后被要求指出描绘一个新动词的场景，从而表明一种偏好的解释。孩子们还被要求在第二盘录像带上给相同的活动场景贴上标签。研究结果表明，5岁的年龄匹配儿童对状态变化场景表现出显著的动词解释偏好，而患有特定语言障碍的儿童及其3岁的MLU匹配同龄人对动作或状态变化场景均没有解释偏好。孩子们对活动场景的标注结果进一步支持了两组在两种语义动词类别上的差异。研究结果表明，儿童的初始动词解释偏差因年龄和语言能力而异。
