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Four-year-old Children's Label Extension according to phonological similarity and familiarity of labels

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2013, 26(1), pp.1-15
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Kim Jinwook 1 Yi Soon Hyung 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the theoretical debate of whether children treat labels as category markers or as features of objects when they perform the label extension task. We investigated whether the phonological similarity and familiarity of labels have effects on task performance. A total of 100 4-year-olds performed the label extension task according to phonological similarity and familiarity of labels. The results indicated that the more phonological features two labels shared, the more likely young children were to extend the labels to the object that is similar in appearance to the target object. These findings suggest that young children are sensitive to the phonological similarity of labels and that they consider this similarity when they extend labels.

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