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Autor/inn/en | Weatherhead, Drew; Werker, Janet F. |
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Titel | 20-Month-Olds Selectively Generalize Newly Learned Word Meanings Based on Cues to Linguistic Community Membership |
Quelle | In: Developmental Science, 25 (2022) 4, (12 Seiten)
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Zusatzinformation | ORCID (Werker, Janet F.) |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1467-7687 |
DOI | 10.1111/desc.13234 |
Schlagwörter | Toddlers; Familiarity; Race; Generalization; Vocabulary Development; Semantics; Child Language; Linguistic Competence |
Abstract | A growing body of work suggests that speaker-race influences how infants and toddlers interpret the meanings of words. In two experiments, we explored the role of speaker-race on whether newly learned word-object pairs are generalized to new speakers. Seventy-two 20-month-olds were taught two word-object pairs from a familiar race speaker, and two different word-object pairs from an unfamiliar race speaker (four new pairs total). Using an intermodal preferential looking procedure, their interpretation of these new word-object pairs was tested using an unpictured novel speaker. We found that toddlers did not generalize word meanings taught by an unfamiliar race speaker to a new speaker (Experiment 1), unless given evidence that the unfamiliar race speaker was a member of the child's linguistic community through affiliative behaviour and linguistic competence (Experiment 2). In both experiments, generalization was observed for the word-object pairs taught by the familiar race speaker. These experiments indicate that children attend to speakers' non-linguistic properties, and this, in turn, can influence the perceived relevance of speakers' labels. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2024/1/01 |