Overextension of Early Words in Comprehension and Production
During the early years of language acquisition, children may use a word in a wide range of contexts, which is called as overextension in research agenda. Barrett (1991) hypothesizes that if a word like dog is overextended not only for referring to dogs of all sizes, but also for referring to cats,...
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| description | During the early years of language acquisition, children may use a word in a wide range of contexts, which is
called as overextension in research agenda. Barrett (1991) hypothesizes that if a word like dog is overextended not
only for referring to dogs of all sizes, but also for referring to cats, horses, or cows, then the overextension is likely
to be exhibited not only in the child's production of that word, but also in the child's comprehension of the word.
Based upon this hypothesis, the focal point of the present study is to test the overextension issue in terms of both
production and comprehension perspectives. The subjects (N=10) aged 2;2 to 4;0 have been experimented through
picture-naming and picture-pointing tasks in order to reveal whether there is a symmetry between these two
stances. The results of this experiment are inconsistent with the views foreseeing any parallelism between the
overextension in comprehension and production. Rather, it has been observed that children have a tendency to
overextend the words in production more often than in comprehension. Nor does it supply evidence for
overextensions mostly occurring in both phases at very early ages |
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| spelling | doaj.art-33ebcff89d694cfd838ae00229e601002023-02-15T16:12:11ZengGaziantep UniversityGaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences1303-00942149-54592018-01-0117122923810.21547/jss.337975Overextension of Early Words in Comprehension and ProductionSeda BANLIDuring the early years of language acquisition, children may use a word in a wide range of contexts, which is called as overextension in research agenda. Barrett (1991) hypothesizes that if a word like dog is overextended not only for referring to dogs of all sizes, but also for referring to cats, horses, or cows, then the overextension is likely to be exhibited not only in the child's production of that word, but also in the child's comprehension of the word. Based upon this hypothesis, the focal point of the present study is to test the overextension issue in terms of both production and comprehension perspectives. The subjects (N=10) aged 2;2 to 4;0 have been experimented through picture-naming and picture-pointing tasks in order to reveal whether there is a symmetry between these two stances. The results of this experiment are inconsistent with the views foreseeing any parallelism between the overextension in comprehension and production. Rather, it has been observed that children have a tendency to overextend the words in production more often than in comprehension. Nor does it supply evidence for overextensions mostly occurring in both phases at very early ageshttp://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/414915Overextensioncomprehension and productionlexicon |
| spellingShingle | Seda BANLI Overextension of Early Words in Comprehension and Production Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences Overextension comprehension and production lexicon |
| title | Overextension of Early Words in Comprehension and Production |
| title_full | Overextension of Early Words in Comprehension and Production |
| title_fullStr | Overextension of Early Words in Comprehension and Production |
| title_full_unstemmed | Overextension of Early Words in Comprehension and Production |
| title_short | Overextension of Early Words in Comprehension and Production |
| title_sort | overextension of early words in comprehension and production |
| topic | Overextension comprehension and production lexicon |
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