Cross-situational word learning of Cantonese Chinese

被引:3
作者
Yip, Michael C. W. [1 ]
机构
[1] Educ Univ Hong Kong, Dept Psychol, Tai Po, 10 Lo Ping Rd, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
关键词
Cross-situational learning; Word learning; Co-occurrence probability; Word-referent mapping; Cantonese Chinese; LEXICAL TONE; PHONOLOGICAL SIMILARITY; NATIVE LANGUAGE; RECOGNITION; CONSONANTS; VOWEL; CONTEXT; ERP; INFORMATION; SPECIFICITY;
D O I
10.3758/s13423-022-02217-7
中图分类号
B841 [心理学研究方法];
学科分类号
040201 ;
摘要
In this study, we recruited 60 native Cantonese speakers to participate in a standard cross-situational word-learning task to explore the cross-situational learning effects of minimal word pairs in Cantonese Chinese. In the cross-situational word-learning task, four different types of word pairs were used: (1) a non-minimal word pair [N]; (2) a consonant minimal word pair [C]; (3) a rime minimal word pair [R]; and (4) a tone minimal word pair [T]. The results showed that the participants could learn the word-referent mapping for all word-pair types, but they performed better on the N and T types than on the other two (i.e., C and R). Together with other previous evidence, these findings suggest that Cantonese language learners can learn and encode those phonetic details while they learn the word-referent co-occurrence probabilities. The results also suggested that the tonal information seemed to be more important than the other phonological components in Cantonese Chinese word learning.
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页码:1074 / 1080
页数:7
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