Furrow D, Baillie C, McLaren J, Moore C
Department of Psychology, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
J Child Lang. 1993 Jun;20(2):363-75. doi: 10.1017/s0305000900008321.
Mothers have been found to respond differently to grammatical and ungrammatical utterances in young children's language. However, parents indicate that they are conscious only of responding to communicative aspects of their children's speech, not grammar. Further, researchers have looked to the understandability of utterances to explain the effects of grammaticality on maternal responses. The present study addressed the question of whether it is actually grammatical form that mothers respond to, or whether it is ambiguity in the communicative functions of children's utterances. Three mother-child dyads were videotaped in a free play setting when the children were 2;0 and 3;0. Children's spontaneous comprehensible utterances were rated for grammaticality and ambiguity of function, and mothers' responses to them were noted. Results indicated that mothers responded differentially to both the ambiguity and grammaticality of children's utterances, and that these two factors had some degree of independence in their effects on mothers' responses.
研究发现，母亲对幼儿语言中符合语法和不符合语法的话语反应不同。然而，家长表示他们只意识到对孩子言语的交际方面做出反应，而非语法。此外，研究人员试图通过话语的可理解性来解释语法性对母亲反应的影响。本研究探讨了母亲实际回应的究竟是语法形式，还是孩子话语交际功能中的歧义这一问题。当孩子分别为2岁和3岁时，对三组母婴在自由玩耍场景中进行了录像。对孩子自发的可理解话语进行语法性和功能歧义评级，并记录母亲对这些话语的反应。结果表明，母亲对孩子话语的歧义性和语法性反应不同，并且这两个因素在影响母亲反应方面具有一定程度的独立性。
