Presentation 2014-02-01
Children's noun-object mapping using syntactic information
Yuka Ohtake, Etsuko Haryu,
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Abstract(in English) The grammatical form class of a novel word helps us identify the appropriate referent onto which the word should be mapped. The present study investigated from when children use noun syntactic information to map a word introduced for an object-motion event onto an object. Since previous studies suggest that Japanese-speaking children become able to syntactically categorize nouns by 16 month of age, we tested 16- and 18- month-olds, using a habituation paradigm with switch design. The results showed that 16-month-olds mapped a noun introduced for an object-motion event to the compound of object and motion (Experiment 1). Eighteen-month-olds mapped the noun to the object independent of the motion (Experiment 2), whereas they mapped a word given in a bare form to the compound of object and motion (Experiment 3). The results suggest that the ability to use syntactic information to identify the appropriate referent for a novel noun develops in 16- to 18-month-olds.
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Keyword(in English) word learning / syntactic information / noun / habituation paradigm with switch design
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Conference Date 2014/1/25(1days)
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Title (in English) Children's noun-object mapping using syntactic information
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Keyword(1) word learning
Keyword(2) syntactic information
Keyword(3) noun
Keyword(4) habituation paradigm with switch design
1st Author's Name Yuka Ohtake
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Education, Tokyo University()
2nd Author's Name Etsuko Haryu
2nd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Education, Tokyo University
Date 2014-02-01
Paper # HCS2013-79
Volume (vol) vol.113
Number (no) 426
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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