An Investigation of Iconic Language Development in Four Datasets

Autor/inn/en	Sidhu, David M.; Williamson, Jennifer; Slavova, Velina; Pexman, Penny M.
Titel	An Investigation of Iconic Language Development in Four Datasets
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 49 (2022) 2, S.382-396 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sidhu, David M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000921000040
Schlagwörter	Infants; Preschool Children; Young Adults; Language Acquisition; Speech Communication; Age Differences; Syntax; Vocabulary Development; Adolescents + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Wortschatzarbeit; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher
Abstract	Iconic words imitate their meanings. Previous work has demonstrated that iconic words are more common in infants' early speech, and in adults' child-directed speech (e.g., Perry et al., 2015; 2018). This is consistent with the proposal that iconicity provides a benefit to word learning. Here we explored iconicity in four diverse language development datasets: a production corpus for infants and preschoolers (MacWhinney, 2000), comprehension data for school-aged children to young adults (Dale & O'Rourke, 1981), word frequency norms from educational texts for school aged children to young adults (Zeno et al., 1995), and a database of parent-reported infant word production (Frank et al., 2017). In all four analyses, we found that iconic words were more common at younger ages. We also explored how this relationship differed by syntactic class, finding only modest evidence for differences. Overall, the results suggest that, beyond infancy, iconicity is an important factor in language acquisition. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01