Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs in Italian Pre-School Children

Autor/inn/en	Colombo, Lucia; Navarrete, Eduardo; Arfé, Barbara
Titel	Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs in Italian Pre-School Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 44 (2017) 6, S.1362-1393 (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Language Acquisition; Young Children; Nouns; Verbs; Pictorial Stimuli; Age Differences; Naming; Error Patterns; Qualitative Research; Knowledge Level; Concept Formation; Preschool Children; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Frühe Kindheit; Fantasieanregung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Fehlertyp; Qualitative Forschung; Wissensbasis; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Italien
Abstract	Noun and verb acquisition was investigated in three- and five-year-old Italian children by means of picture naming of objects and actions, selected from Druks and Masterson (2000). The aim was to examine the previously reported advantage of nouns compared to verbs. Older children were faster than younger children, and naming latencies were faster for object pictures than for action pictures. For errors, the advantage of objects over actions was greater for younger children. A qualitative analysis of errors was carried out according to a classification derived by Masterson, Druks, and Gallienne (2008). Overall, 25% of the errors reflected a complete lack of knowledge of the names or of the meanings of the pictures. Most errors, however, were likely to be due to a not yet fully developed knowledge of the meaning of words labelling the pictures, or to an incomplete conceptual representation, and this pattern was more marked for action concepts. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01