Non-linguistic strategies and the acquisition of word meanings Export

@article{citeulike:5900597, abstract = {The present study proposes that children's apparent comprehension of certain words is at first dependent on a combination of their linguistic hypotheses about a word's meaning and certain non-linguistic strategies. Children aged 1;6-5;0 were given instructions requiring comprehension of the locative terms in , on and under . The results showed that children go through three stages: At first, they consistently use certain non-linguistic strategies that can be characterized by two ordered rules; next, they apply these rules to only one or two of the locative instructions; and finally, they exhibit full semantic knowledge of the three word meanings. Because of these non-linguistic strategies, the younger children always appear to understand in correctly, sometimes appear to understand on and never understand under . It is argued, nevertheless, that these non-linguistic strategies determine the order of acquisition of the three locative terms.}, author = {Clark, E.}, citeulike-article-id = {5900597}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(72)90010-8}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0010-0277(72)90010-8}, doi = {10.1016/0010-0277(72)90010-8}, issn = {00100277}, journal = {Cognition}, keywords = {categorization, word-learning}, number = {2}, pages = {161--182}, posted-at = {2009-10-06 19:22:16}, priority = {2}, title = {Non-linguistic strategies and the acquisition of word meanings}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(72)90010-8}, volume = {2}, year = {1973} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5900597 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5900597 N2 - The present study proposes that children's apparent comprehension of certain words is at first dependent on a combination of their linguistic hypotheses about a word's meaning and certain non-linguistic strategies. Children aged 1;6-5;0 were given instructions requiring comprehension of the locative terms in , on and under . The results showed that children go through three stages: At first, they consistently use certain non-linguistic strategies that can be characterized by two ordered rules; next, they apply these rules to only one or two of the locative instructions; and finally, they exhibit full semantic knowledge of the three word meanings. Because of these non-linguistic strategies, the younger children always appear to understand in correctly, sometimes appear to understand on and never understand under . It is argued, nevertheless, that these non-linguistic strategies determine the order of acquisition of the three locative terms. IS - 2 JF - Cognition SN - 00100277 EP - 182 TI - Non-linguistic strategies and the acquisition of word meanings VL - 2 SP - 161 KW - categorization KW - word-learning AU - Clark, E PY - 1973/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(72)90010-8 ER -