When is a word in good company for learning?

IF 3.1 1区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
Layla Unger, Tyler Chang, Olivera Savic, Benjamin K. Bergen, Vladimir M. Sloutsky
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Abstract

Although identifying the referents of single words is often cited as a key challenge for getting word learning off the ground, it overlooks the fact that young learners consistently encounter words in the context of other words. How does this company help or hinder word learning? Prior investigations into early word learning from children's real-world language input have yielded conflicting results, with some influential findings suggesting an advantage for words that keep a diverse company of other words, and others suggesting the opposite. Here, we sought to triangulate the source of this conflict, comparing different measures of diversity and approaches to controlling for correlated effects of word frequency across multiple languages. The results were striking: while different diversity measures on their own yielded conflicting results, once nonlinear relationships with word frequency were controlled, we found convergent evidence that contextual consistency supports early word learning.

Research Highlights

  • The words children learn occur in a sea of other words. The company words keep ranges from highly variable to highly consistent and circumscribed.
  • Prior findings conflict over whether variability versus consistency helps early word learning.
  • Accounting for correlated effects of word frequency resolved the conflict across multiple languages.
  • Results reveal convergent evidence that consistency helps early word learning.

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什么时候才是学习的好伙伴?
虽然识别单个单词的指代对象常常被认为是单词学习起步阶段的关键挑战,但这忽略了一个事实,即年轻的学习者总是在其他单词的语境中遇到单词。这种情况是如何帮助或阻碍单词学习的呢?之前对儿童从真实世界的语言输入中进行早期单词学习的研究得出了相互矛盾的结果,一些有影响力的研究结果表明,与其他单词保持多样化同伴关系的单词具有优势,而另一些研究结果则相反。在此,我们试图对这一冲突的根源进行三角分析,比较不同的多样性测量方法和控制多语言词频相关影响的方法。结果令人震惊:虽然不同的多样性测量方法本身会产生相互矛盾的结果,但一旦控制了与词频的非线性关系,我们就发现了一致的证据,即上下文的一致性支持早期的单词学习。儿童所学的单词是在其他单词的海洋中出现的。单词的陪伴者既有高度多变的,也有高度一致和限定的。先前的研究结果在多变性与一致性是否有助于早期单词学习的问题上存在冲突。考虑到词频的相关影响,解决了多种语言中的冲突。研究结果表明,一致性有助于早期单词学习。
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自引率
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期刊介绍: Developmental Science publishes cutting-edge theory and up-to-the-minute research on scientific developmental psychology from leading thinkers in the field. It is currently the only journal that specifically focuses on human developmental cognitive neuroscience. Coverage includes: - Clinical, computational and comparative approaches to development - Key advances in cognitive and social development - Developmental cognitive neuroscience - Functional neuroimaging of the developing brain
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