Children Use Gesture to Interpret Novel Verb Meanings

被引：50

作者：

Mumford, Katherine H. ^{[1
]}

Kita, Sotaro ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England

来源：

CHILD DEVELOPMENT | 2014年 / 85卷 / 03期

基金：

英国经济与社会研究理事会;

关键词：

OBJECTS; EVENTS; SPEECH; ACQUISITION; ATTENTION; ICONICITY; WORDS; LEARN;

D O I：

10.1111/cdev.12188

中图分类号：

G44 [教育心理学];

学科分类号：

0402 ; 040202 ;

摘要：

Children often find it difficult to map verbs to specific referents within complex scenes, often believing that additional features are part of the referents. This study investigated whether 3-year-olds could use iconic gestures to map novel verbs to specific referents. One hundred and twenty children were taught verbs that could be interpreted as change-of-state or manner verbs while presented with manner, end-state, or no iconic gestures. Children were then presented with a choice that forced them to generalize either on the basis of manner or end state. Results showed that children who saw manner gestures showed a stronger manner bias compared to the other groups. Thus, the specific feature of an event encoded in gestures guides children's interpretations of novel words.

引用

页码：1181 / 1189

页数：9

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