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Can one written word mean many things? Prereaders’ assumptions about the stability of written words’ meanings
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Collins, J. S. and Robinson, Elizabeth J. (2005) Can one written word mean many things? Prereaders’ assumptions about the stability of written words’ meanings. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol.90 (No.1). pp. 1-20. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2004.09.004 ISSN 0022-0965.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2004.09.004
Abstract
Results of three experiments confirmed previous findings that in a moving word task, prereaders 3 to 5 years of age judge as if the meaning of a written word changes when it moves from a matching to a nonmatching toy (e.g., when the word “dog” moves from a dog to a boat). We explore under what circumstances children make such errors, we identify new conditions under which children were more likely correctly to treat written words’ meanings as stable: when the word was placed alongside a nonmatching toy without having been alongside a matching toy previously, when two words were moved from a matching toy to a nonmatching toy, and when children were asked to change what the print said. Under these conditions, children more frequently assumed that physical forms had stable meanings as they do with other forms of external representation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Signs and symbols, Symbolism, Writing, Cognitive grammar, Language acquisition, Visual communication | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology | ||||
Publisher: | Academic Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0022-0965 | ||||
Official Date: | January 2005 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.90 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-20 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2004.09.004 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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