講演抄録/キーワード |
講演名 |
2008-08-08 16:15
Effect of Sentential Contexts on Word-Action Associations in 12-to 18-month-old Japanese Infants ○Tessei Kobayashi・Ryoko Mugitani・Franklin Chang・Shigeaki Amano(NTT) TL2008-27 |
抄録 |
(和) |
(事前公開アブストラクト) The present study investigates the effect of sentential contexts on infants’ ability to associate words with actions in earlier stages of lexical development. In a habituation looking paradigm, 12-, 14- and 18-month-old Japanese infants (N=144) repeatedly watched computer-animated events in which a fish was engaged in rotating or rocking actions paired with novel words in three contexts: (1) isolated words (“boome” and “seppu”), (2) words in a verb frame with a null subject (“[it] is daku/nema-ing”), and (3) words in a subject-verb sequence (“boome is daku/nema-ing”). To test the performance of word-action associations, infants were presented with the same word-action pairs and the switched word-action pairs. Results showed that when the novel words were presented in isolation and in a verb frame with a null subject, the 14- and 18-month-olds (but not 12-month-olds) could associate words with actions. In contrast, when the novel words were presented in a subject-verb sequence, only 18-month-olds (but not 12- and 14-month-olds) could associate words with actions. This suggests that infants before 18 months might be easier to perform word-action associations in simpler sentential contexts. |
(英) |
To address the issue of early verb learning, this study investigate the effect of sentential contexts on infants’ ability to associate words with actions. In a habituation paradigm, 12-, 14- and 18-month-old Japanese infants repeatedly watched computer-animated events in which a fish was engaged in rotating or rocking actions paired with novel words in three contexts: (1) in isolation (“boome” and “seppu”), (2) in a verb frame with a null subject (“[it] is daku/nema-ing”), and (3) in a verb frame with a subject (“boome is daku/nema-ing”). Then, infants alternately watched the same word-action pairs and the switched word-action pairs. Results showed that when the novel words were presented in isolation and in a verb frame with a null subject, the 14- and 18-month-olds, but not 12-month-olds, could associate words with actions. By contrast, when the novel words were presented in a verb frame with a subject, only 18-month-olds, but not 12- and 14-month-olds, could associate words with actions. This suggests that by 14 months, infants might begin to associate words with actions only in simpler sentential contexts. |
キーワード |
(和) |
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(英) |
Early Word Learning / Lexical Development / Sentence / Japanese / Infants / nouns and verbs / noun bias / habituation |
文献情報 |
信学技報, vol. 108, no. 184, TL2008-27, pp. 83-86, 2008年8月. |
資料番号 |
TL2008-27 |
発行日 |
2008-08-01 (TL) |
ISSN |
Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
著作権に ついて |
技術研究報告に掲載された論文の著作権は電子情報通信学会に帰属します.(許諾番号:10GA0019/12GB0052/13GB0056/17GB0034/18GB0034) |
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