Vocal overimitation in preschool-age children
| Autor: | Katherine L. Winters, Cynthia Core, Francys Subiaul, Kathryn Krumpak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Pronunciation Language Development 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Cognition Noun Developmental and Educational Psychology Cognitive development Humans Learning 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child media_common 05 social sciences Imitative Behavior Social Learning Language development Child Preschool Tape Recording Female Vocal learning Syllable Psychology Imitation 050104 developmental & child psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 141:145-160 |
| ISSN: | 0022-0965 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.08.010 |
| Popis: | Overimitation--copying incorrect, idiosyncratic, or causally irrelevant actions--has been linked to our species' long history with artifacts whose functions are often opaque. It is an open question, however, whether children overimitate outside the artifact domain. We explored this question by presenting preschool-age children (3- to 5-year-olds, N=120) with an elicited imitation task that included high- and low-frequency disyllabic nouns (e.g., 'pizza) and nonwords (e.g., 'chizza), all of which had a stressed first syllable. However, during testing, half of the stimuli were incorrectly pronounced by stressing the second syllable (e.g., pi'zza). More than half of the children copied the model's incorrect pronunciation of high-frequency familiar words, consistent with overimitation. This pattern of response persisted even after children had themselves correctly named the familiar words prior to the start of testing, confirming that children purposefully altered the pronunciation of known words to match the incorrect pronunciations used by a model. These results demonstrate that overimitation is not restricted to the artifact domain and might extend to many different tasks and domains. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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