从范畴化视角看说汉语儿童的早期名词习得

Mandarin-speaking children's early noun acquisition from the perspective of categorization

运用调查分析法、文献资料法、数理统计等方法对两名说汉语儿童从1岁到3岁期间进行跟踪调查研究,根据范畴理论把儿童早期习得的名词分类,对所获数据进行早期儿童名词习得的研究分析,结果显示男孩女孩均对用具用物这一范畴类名称习得高于其它范畴类名词;均对亲属称谓、器官名称、动物名称、自然物名称、颜色词名称这些范畴类名词习得在总范畴类名词的习得中所占的比例相当等等。表明儿童早期名词习得受到认知结构和语言输入的共同制约。

Methods of investigation, document and statistics are employed to mquire into me observation of the early acquisition of nouns of two mandarin-speaking children from 1 to 3 years old. By dividing the nouns with the theory of categorization and. analyzing the longitudinal data, the result shows that both boys and girls acquire the category of device nouns more quickly than nouns of other categories, and that the rates of nouns about kinships, organs, natural objects, colors are relatively equal. The study indicates that children＇s early noun acquisition is restricted by both their cognitive structure and their language input.