Do Children Go for the Nice Guys? The Influence of Speaker Benevolence and Certainty on Selective Word Learning

Autor/inn/en	Bergstra, Myrthe; De Mulder, Hannah N. M.; Coopmans, Peter
Titel	Do Children Go for the Nice Guys? The Influence of Speaker Benevolence and Certainty on Selective Word Learning
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 45 (2018) 4, S.900-916 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S030500091700054X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Children; Language Acquisition; Speech; Cues; Retention (Psychology); Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Vocabulary; Psychological Characteristics; Preferences; Indo European Languages; Statistical Analysis; Elementary School Students; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Child; Kind; Kinder; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Speaking; Sprechen; Stichwort; Merkfähigkeit; Wortschatz; Indoeuropäisch; Statistische Analyse; Niederlande
Abstract	This study investigated how speaker certainty (a rational cue) and speaker benevolence (an emotional cue) influence children's willingness to learn words in a selective learning paradigm. In two experiments four- to six-year-olds learnt novel labels from two speakers and, after a week, their memory for these labels was reassessed. Results demonstrated that children retained the label-object pairings for at least a week. Furthermore, children preferred to learn from certain over uncertain speakers, but they had no significant preference for nice over nasty speakers. When the cues were combined, children followed certain speakers, even if they were nasty. However, children did prefer to learn from nice and certain speakers over nasty and certain speakers. These results suggest that rational cues regarding a speaker's linguistic competence trump emotional cues regarding a speaker's affective status in word learning. However, emotional cues were found to have a subtle influence on this process. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01