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Autor/inn/en | Goksun, Tilbe; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Imai, Mutsumi; Konishi, Haruka; Okada, Hiroyuki |
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Titel | Who Is Crossing Where? Infants' Discrimination of Figures and Grounds in Events |
Quelle | In: Cognition, 121 (2011) 2, S.176-195 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0010-0277 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.002 |
Schlagwörter | Infants; Old English; Investigations; Experiments; Foreign Countries; Verbs; Time Factors (Learning); Age Differences; Comparative Analysis; English (Second Language); Form Classes (Languages); Japan |
Abstract | To learn relational terms such as verbs and prepositions, children must first dissect and process dynamic event components. This paper investigates the way in which 8- to 14-month-old English-reared infants notice the event components, "figure" (i.e., the moving entity) and "ground" (i.e., stationary setting), in both dynamic (Experiment 1) and static representations of events (Experiment 2) for categorical "ground" distinctions expressed in Japanese, but not in English. We then compare both 14- and 19-month-old English- and Japanese-reared infants' processing of grounds to understand how language learning interacts with the conceptualization of these constructs (Experiment 3). Results suggest that (1) infants distinguish between figures and grounds in events; (2) they do so differently for static vs. dynamic displays; (3) early in the second year, children from diverse language environments form nonnative--perhaps universal--event categories; and (4) these event categories shift over time as children have more exposure to their native tongue. (Contains 8 figures.) (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |