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EFFECTS OF OBJECT'S SURROUNDING SITUATION ON QUALIFYING WORD MEANING IN YOUNG CHILDREN

1997; Japanese Association of Educational Psychology; Volume: 45; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5926/jjep1953.45.4_474

2186-3075

Takahiro Tamura,

Educational Research and Pedagogy

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of an object's surrounding situation on qualifying word meaning in young children. The subjects were 50 children aged four to five years. When the experimenter labeled a novel word to target examples (i. e.“an elephant” or “a lion and a tiger”) which were in a cage, subjects were likely to qualify the word meaning only when being similarly restricted by its surrounding situation (a cage). On the other hand, when the experimenter labeled a novel word to target examples not in a cage, subjects were likely to qualify the word meaning with a conceptual level name (i. e.“elephant” or “animal”). The findings suggested that an object's surrounding situation had an effect on qualifying word meaning in young children.