They Call It like They See It: Spontaneous Naming and Attention to Shape

Autor/inn/en	Samuelson, Larissa K.; Smith, Linda B.
Titel	They Call It like They See It: Spontaneous Naming and Attention to Shape
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 8 (2005) 2, S.182-198 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00405.x
Schlagwörter	Form Classes (Languages); Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Vocabulary Development; Language Acquisition; Attention; Adults; Child Language; Cues; Task Analysis; Generalization; Identification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Wortschatzarbeit; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Aufmerksamkeit; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Stichwort; Aufgabenanalyse; Identifikation; Identifizierung
Abstract	Two experiments explore children's spontaneous labeling of novel objects as a method to study early lexical access. The experiments also provide new evidence on children's attention to object shape when labeling objects. In Experiment 1, the spontaneous productions of 21 23- to 28-month-olds (mean 26;28) shown a set of novel, unnamed objects were analyzed both in terms of the specific words said and, via adult judgments, their likely perceptual basis. We found that children's spontaneous names were cued by the perceptual feature of shape. Experiment 2 examines the relation between spontaneous productions, name generalizations in a structured task, and vocabulary development in a group of children between 17 and 24 months of age (mean 21;6). Results indicate that object shape plays an important role in both spontaneous productions and novel noun generalization, but contrary to current hypotheses, children may name objects by shape from the earliest points of productive vocabulary development and this tendency may not be lexically specific. (As Provided).
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