Tellings, A., Coppens, K., Gelissen, J., & Schreuder, R. (2013). Clusters of word properties as predictors of elementary school children's performance on two word tasks. Applied Psycholinguistics, 34(3), 461-481.
摘要:Often, the classification of words does not go beyond "difficult" (i.e., infrequent, late-learned, nonimageable, etc.) or "easy" (i.e., frequent, early-learned, imageable, etc.) words. In the present study, we used a latent cluster analysis to divide 703 Dutch words with scores for eight word properties into seven clusters of words. Each cluster represents a group of words that share a particular configuration of word properties. This model was empirically validated with three data sets from Grades 2 to 4 children who made either a lexical decision task or a use decision task with a selection of the words. Significant differences were found between the clusters of words within the three data sets. Implications for further study and for practice are discussed.
关键词:psycholinguistics, child language acquisition, Child Language, Lexical Decision Task, Elementary School Students, Dutch, Children, Native Language Acquisition, Language Usage