12-Month-Olds' Phonotactic Knowledge Guides Their Word-Object Mappings

Autor/inn/en	MacKenzie, Heather; Curtin, Suzanne; Graham, Susan A.
Titel	12-Month-Olds' Phonotactic Knowledge Guides Their Word-Object Mappings
Quelle	In: Child Development, 83 (2012) 4, S.1129-1136 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01764.x
Schlagwörter	Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Associative Learning; Slavic Languages; Infants; Vocabulary Development; Native Language; English; Comparative Analysis; Japanese; Experiments; Child Language; Visual Stimuli; Vowels; Phonemes; Pretests Posttests; Likert Scales + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Slawische Sprache; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Wortschatzarbeit; English language; Englisch; Japaner; Japanisch; Erprobung; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Fonem; Likert-Skala
Abstract	This study examined whether 12-month-olds will accept words that differ phonologically and phonetically from their native language as object labels in an associative learning task. Sixty infants were presented with sets of English word-object (N = 30), Japanese word-object (N = 15), or Czech word-object (N = 15) pairings until they habituated. Infants associated CVCV English, CCVC English, and CVCV Japanese words, but not CCVC Czech words, with novel objects. These results demonstrate that by 12 months of age, infants are beginning to apply their language-specific knowledge to their acceptance of word forms. That is, they will not map words that violate the phonotactics of their native language to objects. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10