아동학회지 (Korean Journal of Child Studies)

  • 제37권4호
  • /
  • Pages.159-168
  • /
  • 2016
  • /
  • 1226-1688(pISSN)
  • /
  • 2234-408X(eISSN)
한국아동학회 (Korean Association of Child Studies)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

단일 언어 사용 2-3세 아동의 외국어 단어에 대한 이해

Monolingual 2- to 3-Year-Old Children's Understanding of Foreign Words

  • Lee, Hyuna (Department of Psychology, Yonsei University) ;
  • Kim, Eun Young (Department of Occupational Therapy, Soonchunhyang University) ;
  • Song, Hyun-joo (Department of Psychology, Yonsei University)
  • 투고 : 2016.06.30
  • 심사 : 2016.08.28
  • 발행 : 2016.08.31
PDF 다운로드
⟨ 이전 논문 다음 논문 ⟩

초록

Objective: This study investigated the age at which monolingual children can understand that different languages are different conventional systems of communication. In particular, we investigated when children can suspend using the mutual exclusivity (ME) assumption that a label solely refers to one category when interpreting novel words from foreign languages. Methods: Two-year-olds (n = 16) and 3-year-olds (n = 16) participated in the procedure, which consisted of three blocks. In the first block, a Korean speaker taught the children a novel word, muppi, referring to a novel object. The children were presented with two objects, muppi and another novel object. The Korean speaker then asked the children to find a referent of either muppi or the other novel Korean label, kkati. In the second block, a foreign language (either English or Spanish) speaker asked children to find the object for a foreign novel word, sefo, presenting two objects: muppi and the third novel object, which had not been presented before. The procedure of the third block was identical to that of the first block. Results: Three-year-olds exploited the ME assumption when interpreting a Korean novel word but not when interpreting a foreign novel word. In contrast, 2-year-old children did not use the ME assumption when interpreting native and foreign words. Conclusion: Children acquire an understanding that native and foreign languages have different words for an object at least by 3 years of age.

키워드

참고문헌

  1. Au, T. K., & Glusman, M. (1990). The principle of mutual exclusivity in word learning: To honor or not to honor? Child Development, 61(5), 1474-1490. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb02876.x
  2. Bloom, P. (2000). How children learn the meanings of words. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  3. Buttelmann, D., Zmyj, N., Daum, M., & Carpenter, M. (2013). Selective imitation of in-group over out-group members in 14-month-old infants. Child Development, 84(2), 422-428. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01860.x
  4. Byers-Heinlein, K., Chen, K. H., & Xu, F. (2014). Surmounting the Tower of Babel: Monolingual and bilingual 2-year-olds' understanding of the nature of foreign language words. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 119, 87-100. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2013.09.011
  5. Clark, E. V. (1987). The principle of contrast: A constraint on language acquisition. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), Mechanisms of language acquisition (pp. 1-33). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  6. Han, S., & Lee, K. (2013). Cognitive and affective perspectivetaking ability of young bilinguals in South Korea. Child Studies in Diverse Contexts, 3(1), 69-80. doi:10.5723/csdc.2013.3.1.069
  7. Haryu, E. (1998). Effects of knowledge about cross-language equivalents on children's use of mutual exclusivity in interpreting novel labels. Japanese Psychological Research, 40(2), 82-91. Retrieved from http://refhub.elsevier.com/S0022-0965(13)00197-5/h0125 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5884.00078
  8. Markman, E. M., & Wachtel, G. F. (1988). Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meanings of words. Cognitive Psychology, 20(2), 121-157. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(88)90017-5
  9. Markman, E. M., Wasow, J. L., & Hansen, M. B. (2003). Use of the mutual exclusivity assumption by young word learners. Cognitive Psychology, 47(3), 241-275. doi:10.1016/S0010-0285(03)00034-3
  10. Merriman, W. E., Bowman, L. L., & MacWhinney, B. (1989). The mutual exclusivity bias in children's word learning. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 54(3-4), 1-129. doi:10.2307/1166130
  11. Scott, J. C., & Henderson, A. M. E. (2013). Language matters: Thirteen-month-olds understand that the language a speaker uses constrains conventionality. Developmental Psychology, 49(11), 2102-2111. doi:10.1037/a0031981
  12. Ghim, H.-R. (1994). Evidence for and against the mutual exclusivity assumption: By Korean 3-year-old children and adults. Korean Journal of Psychology: Developmental, 7(2), 1-23. Retrieved from http://www.dbpia.co.kr/Article/NODE06374754
  13. Lee, H. (2005). Mutual exclusivity constraint versus intention in word learning: Based on Korean data. The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 18(1), 79-95. Retrieved from http://www.dbpia.co.kr/Article/NODE06375028
  14. Pae, S., Kwak, K., Kim, M., Lee, H., & Jung, K. (2008). Short form versions of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories-Korean (M-B CDI-K). Speech Sciences, 15(2), 119-129. Retrieved from http://www.dbpia.co.kr/Article/NODE01009600
  15. Song, Y. (2006). Children's inferring word meaning from understanding of the speaker's mind. Korean Journal of Child Studies, 27(2), 167-180. Retrieved from http://www.childstudies.org/journal/view.php?number=2826