The contrastive hypothesis for the acquisition of word meaning: a reconsideration of the theory
| Autor: | Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Vocabulary Concept Formation media_common.quotation_subject Infant Linguistics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Models Psychological Semantic field Language acquisition Semantics Language Development Superordinate goals Second-language acquisition Language and Linguistics Vocabulary development Developmental and Educational Psychology Developmental linguistics Humans Psychology General Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Language. 14:493-531 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7602 0305-0009 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0305000900010266 |
| Popis: | The evidence for the Contrastive Hypothesis (Clark 1980, 1983a, b, 1987, Barrett 1978, 1982) is reviewed. An examination of data from the acquisition of object words, relational words and superordinate terms reveals little support for this hypothesis that young children automatically assume that every two words in their lexicons contrast. Further, theoretical problems with the positions that children assign words to semantic fields as they are acquiring them and that innovations are used to fill lexical gaps make these stances untenable. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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