Children's Foreign Word Recognition at First Exposure: The Role of Phonological Similarity and Utterance Position

IF 4.2 1区文学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Language Learning Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI:10.1111/lang.70009

Katie Von Holzen, Rochelle S. Newman

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Abstract

The current study examined how children apply their phonological knowledge to recognize translation equivalents in a foreign language. Target words for recognition were either phonologically similar (cognate) or dissimilar (noncognate) to words they already knew in their first language. To examine how recognition of such words is impacted by their position in the utterance, target words were either embedded in an edge (Experiment 1) or non‐edge (Experiment 2) position in the carrier phrase. Results show that preschool‐aged children can recognize words from a foreign language when those words are phonologically similar to words they know in their first language, and this is not constrained by the word's location within an utterance. Children are at an advantage recognizing new lexical items in a new language if those items are similar in form to words they already know in their first language.

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儿童初次接触外来词的识别：语音相似性和话语位置的作用

目前的研究考察了儿童如何运用他们的音系知识来识别外语翻译中的对等物。要识别的目标单词要么在音系上与他们在母语中已经知道的单词相似（同源），要么不同（非同源）。为了研究这些词在话语中的位置如何影响对它们的识别，我们将目标词嵌入到载体短语的边缘（实验1）或非边缘（实验2）位置。研究结果表明，学龄前儿童能够识别来自外语的单词，只要这些单词在语音上与他们在母语中所知道的单词相似，而且这并不受单词在话语中的位置的限制。如果一门新语言中的新词汇与他们在母语中已经知道的单词在形式上相似，那么孩子们在识别新词汇方面就有优势。

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9.10

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15.90%

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期刊介绍： Language Learning is a scientific journal dedicated to the understanding of language learning broadly defined. It publishes research articles that systematically apply methods of inquiry from disciplines including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, educational inquiry, neuroscience, ethnography, sociolinguistics, sociology, and anthropology. It is concerned with fundamental theoretical issues in language learning such as child, second, and foreign language acquisition, language education, bilingualism, literacy, language representation in mind and brain, culture, cognition, pragmatics, and intergroup relations. A subscription includes one or two annual supplements, alternating among a volume from the Language Learning Cognitive Neuroscience Series, the Currents in Language Learning Series or the Language Learning Special Issue Series.