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Cognition and perception in the linguistic encoding of space in child Mandarin
认知与知觉在普通话儿童空间编码中的作用
Deng Xiangjun 邓湘君; Virginia Yip 叶彩燕
Abstract 摘要
Mandarin-speaking children based on a corpus study and a series of experimental tasks. It is shown that cognitive development plays a significant role in the development of spatial language. The acquisition of pang ‘side’ before you ‘right’ is accounted for by the cognitive complexity of the localizers. Cognitive egocentricity biased children under 4;0 towards
the aligned strategy in interpreting qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’, and caused 6-year-olds to rely on the viewer-centered frame of reference in interpreting zuo ‘left’ and you ‘right’ when the reference entity has inherent orientation. Our findings show that young children are sensitive to the Figure-Ground asymmetry, a cognitive constraint, and perceptual cues influence children’s choice of reference strategies.
Keywords 关键词
Child spatial language 儿童空间语言 Cognition 认知 Perception 知觉 Egocentricity 自我中心
Frame of reference 参照系统 Reference strategy 参照策略
Journal of Chinese Linguistics vol.44, no.2 (June 2016): 287-325
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