An empirical study on native Mandarin-speaking children’s metonymy comprehension development

IF 1.7 2区 文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI:10.1017/s0305000924000539
Songqiao Xie, Chunyan He
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This study investigates Mandarin-speaking children’s (age 3–7) comprehension development of novel and conventional metonymy, combining online and offline methods. Both online and offline data show significantly better performances from the oldest group (6-to-7-year-old) and a delayed acquisition of conventional metonymy compared with novel metonymy. However, part of offline data shows no significant difference between adjacent age groups, while the eye-tracking data show a chronological development from age 3–7. Furthermore, in offline tasks, the three-year-old group features a high choice randomness and the four-to-five-year-olds show the longest reaction time. Therefore, we argue that, not only age but also metonymy type can influence metonymy acquisition, and that a lack of socio-cultural experience can be a source of acquisition difficulty for children under six. Methodologically speaking, we believe that online methods should not be considered superior to offline ones as they investigate different aspects of implicit and explicit language comprehension.

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母语为汉语的儿童转喻理解发展的实证研究
本研究采用线上与线下相结合的方法,对汉语普通话儿童(3-7岁)对新转喻和传统转喻的理解发展进行了研究。在线和离线数据都显示,年龄最大的一组(6- 7岁)的表现明显更好,与新转喻相比,传统转喻的习得延迟。然而,部分线下数据显示相邻年龄组之间没有显著差异,而眼动追踪数据显示3-7岁是按时间顺序发展的。此外,在离线任务中,3岁儿童的选择随机性较高,4 - 5岁儿童的反应时间最长。因此,我们认为,除了年龄,转喻类型也会影响转喻习得,缺乏社会文化经验可能是六岁以下儿童习得困难的一个来源。从方法论上讲,我们认为在线方法不应该被认为比离线方法优越,因为它们研究了内隐和外显语言理解的不同方面。
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期刊介绍: A key publication in the field, Journal of Child Language publishes articles on all aspects of the scientific study of language behaviour in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it. The international range of authors and breadth of coverage allow the journal to forge links between many different areas of research including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and anthropology. This interdisciplinary approach spans a wide range of interests: phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, or any other recognised facet of language study.
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