Kindergarten Children Can Be Taught to Detect Lexical Ambiguities

Autor/inn/en	Kamowski-Shakibai, Margaret T.; Cairns, Helen Smith
Titel	Kindergarten Children Can Be Taught to Detect Lexical Ambiguities
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 43 (2016) 2, S.442-456 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S030500091500015X
Schlagwörter	Child Language; Kindergarten; Preschool Children; Language Acquisition; Language Skills; Metalinguistics; Ambiguity (Semantics); Training; Sentences; Phonology; Experiments; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Vocabulary; Lexicology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Metalanguage; Metasprache; Ausbildung; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Fonologie; Erprobung; Wortschatz; Lexikologie
Abstract	This study investigates the development of metalinguistic skills, particularly ambiguity detection, and whether training accelerates this development for prereaders in kindergarten (5;5-6;6). It is the first to compare homophone detection with lexically ambiguous sentence detection in which the same homophones appear. The experimental group received ambiguity detection training; the control group received vocabulary training. Results showed that there is a spontaneous development of homophone detection abilities at the end of kindergarten, and training may accelerate this trajectory. The development of lexical ambiguity detection is not apparent in kindergarteners. However, explicit training improves this trajectory significantly. The knowledge of both meanings of a homophone is not sufficient to report both meanings of a sentence that contains that homophone. We propose that detecting the dual meanings of an ambiguous sentence involves sentence processing operations and an ability to think flexibly about language that may be enhanced with training. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01