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JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE
卷 36, 期 2, 页码 405-423出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908009008
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD050199-01A2, R01 HD050199, R03 HD060139, R01HD050199] Funding Source: Medline
Verbs are harder to learn than nouns in English and in many other languages, but are relatively easy to learn in Chinese. This paper evaluates one potential explanation for these findings by examining the construct of imageability, or the ability of a word to produce a mental image. Chinese adults rated the imageability of Chinese words from the Chinese Communicative Development Inventory (Tardif et al., in press). Imageability ratings were a reliable predictor of age of acquisition it) Chinese for both nouns and verbs. Furthermore, whereas early Chinese and English nouns do NOT differ in imageability, verbs receive higher imageability ratings in Chinese than in English. Compared with input frequency, imageability independently accounts for a portion of the variance in age of acquisition (AoA) of verb learning in Chinese and English.
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