The Development of Young Chinese Children's Morphological Awareness: The Role of Semantic Relatedness and Morpheme Type

Autor/inn/en	Hao, Meiling; Chen, Xi; Dronjic, Vedran; Shu, Hua; Anderson, Richard C.
Titel	The Development of Young Chinese Children's Morphological Awareness: The Role of Semantic Relatedness and Morpheme Type
Quelle	In: Applied Psycholinguistics, 34 (2013) 1, S.45-67 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7164
DOI	10.1017/S0142716411000609
Schlagwörter	Morphemes; Kindergarten; Semantics; Grade 2; Grade 1; Role; Morphology (Languages); Metalinguistics; Chinese; Native Language; Longitudinal Studies; Identification; Developmental Stages; Case Studies; Elementary School Students; Asians + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Morphem; Semantik; School year 02; 2. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 02; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Rollen; Morphology; Morphologie; Metalanguage; Metasprache; China; Chinesen; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate
Abstract	The research reported in this paper investigated the effects of semantic relatedness of words (closely related vs. distantly related) and morpheme type (free morpheme vs. bound morpheme) on young Chinese children's homophone awareness, an aspect of morphological awareness, in two experiments. The first experiment was a cross-sectional study including 39 children in a beginning kindergarten class, 39 children in an intermediate kindergarten class, and 36 children in a senior kindergarten class. The second experiment was a 7-month longitudinal study involving 43 first graders and 50 second graders at the beginning of the study. In both experiments, the children judged whether orally presented words shared the same morpheme or contained homophonous morphemes. The results suggest that homophone awareness emerges in Chinese children in the kindergarten years. Children's morpheme identification is facilitated by the semantic proximity of words that share a morpheme, and awareness of free morphemes is developed before that of bound morphemes. Furthermore, although semantic relatedness is the most prominent factor in kindergarten, its effect varies as a function of morpheme type in the early primary grades. Our research sheds light on the developmental course of morphological awareness and the factors that influence it. (As Provided).
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